General Cable News.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XV, Issue 2736, 19 November 1897, Page 4

General Cable News.

London, Nov. 16, It appears that Abyssinia has an idea of occupying Khartoum before the Egyptian forces reach it. 2400 engineers on strike voted for increasing the strike pay by 6d, and 460 against it. The workmen claim to be desirous of securing, a lasting settlement of the dispute. Mr Ounninghame Graham, while travelling in the Atlas Mountains, North-west Africa, was taken prisoner by Moors, but released after 10 days' imprisonment. The Royal Niger Company has sent an expedition to attack Arku, the headquarters of the slave-trad-ing Prince Idah. Ernest Cavill, the Australian professional swimming champion, James Finney, of Blackpool, and Daniells, English professionals, shortly leave England for South Africa. The party afterwards proceed to Australia. November 17. Lord Salisbury, addressing a Conservative Conference, spoke in high praise of the devotion and bravery of the native Indian soldiery. The Conference passed a resolution in favour of a substantial increase in the Army, a Boyal residence for Ireland and remedial measures against the foreign Sugar and Shipping Bounties. Birmingham small arm manufacturers are alleged to have supplied many of the Afrldis tribesmen with guns. One firm admits sending 800 rifles and a ton of ammunition, via the Persian Gulf, for many months past. Owing to numerous European engagements, Pederswki, the famous Russian pianist, has cancelled his contract for a tour of Australia. The Employers’ Federation has postponed the preliminary meeting of the Conference which was to have taken place to-day between representives of the employers and of the engineers. Mr Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, says that both sides are inclined to approach each other in.a conciliatory spirit. If they do not agreed upon a chairman satisfactory to both parties they will be willing to appoint a chairman for each side. Mr Morton (Conservative) has been elected by a majority of 824 to fill the vacancy for Deptford caused by the retirement of Mr J. Darling, Q.C., who has been appointed a Judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench. Calcutta, November 16. The plague is increasing at Poona, where the principal streets have been closed. There are 680 cases, and 94 deaths have taken place within 48 hours. Pretoria, Nov. 15. Mr Burger has finally agreed to contest the Transvaal Presidency with Oom Paul. Constantinople, Nov. 15. Russia has warned Turkey that it will regard the fortifying of the Bosphorus as a hostile movement. Russia wants to keep Turkey weak, Sydney, Nov. 16.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales, the report and balance-sheet were adopted. The profit, including £2250 brought into account, was £119,180, out of which £7165 was deducted for rebate. The usual dividend at the rate of 9 per cent, per annum was declared, absorbing £87,750. A sum of £7650 was carried to the reserve, thereby raising it to £1,200,000, leaving a balance to be carried forward of £16,564. The sentence of death passed upon De Gloats, who was convicted of attempted wife murder, has been commuted to imprisonment for life. Cholera is raging violently in Java. November 17. Becently an unknown man was murdered in Kent, England. His clothes bore a Sydney tailor’s name. The clothes reached here to-day, and were identified as having been made for a man named Anderson. The Postmaster-General, replying to a deputation of the Chamber of Commerce, has agreed to use his influence to get the New Zealand Government to reconsider its decision not to grant the use of the Tutanekai to repair the Noumea cable which broke a short time back. Bio, Nov. 15. Martial law has been proclaimed for a month in consequence of the recent attack on the President. Paris, Nov. 15. France has abolished the rule providing for the secret examination of prisoners prior to their trial on criminal and other charges. Bomb, November 16. The Pope has forbidden Eoman Catholic children to attend the national schools in Manitoba, Canada. Athens, November 16. Captain Bastopolu, an officer in the Greek navy, has been tried by court-martial on a charge of permiting useless torpedoes to be supplied during the recent Greco-Turkish war. He was found guilty, and ordered to be dismissed from the service. Bt. Petersburg, Nov. 16. Bussia will expend 24,000,000 roubles (£3,900,0CD) in building new warships, the grant already sanctioned being doubled. Vienna, Nov. 16. The Austrian Budget announces that an additional 7,000,000 florins (£700,000) will be required for the supply of war material and the erection of forts in Austro-Hungary. Austria threatens to bombard Mersina, the port in Asiatic Turkey where an affront was lately put upon an Austrian subject. In a Note to the Porte, she insists that the dispute over the Austrian-Oriential railway, in connection with which the present difficulty primarily arose, shall be settled, and will not consent to the Ottoman Band making an advance on the railway account until her demand with reference to the dismissal of the officials is satisfied. Berlin, Nov. 16. The Supreme Court hatf dismissed the appeal of Dr Carl Peters, the German explorer, who was charged with cruelty towards the natives in

German East Africa. He is to be discharged from the German-Colo-nial service, and will,not receive a pension. The German East African fleet, which was ordered to the Province of Shantung, in the Gulf of Pechili, China, to obtain redress for the murder some time ago of missionaries belonging to a German mission, has landed a force at Kio-chau Bay, to the south of the Weihaiwei Peninsula, one of the finest harbors on the Chinese coast. The German newspaper Neueste Nachriohten has suggested the permanent occupation of the station as a rendezvous for the fleet, and says this has long been an object of German ambition. British and Russian interests, it adds, would be in no way affected.

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