News of the Week cable items

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XIX, 8 November 1902, Page 1172

News of the Week cable items

Lord Ranfurly is inspecting his property at Mildura.

. The French champagne vintage this year has proved a failure.

The King of Italy will shortly pay a visit to England.

The King reviewed and addressed 4100 Guards. The Queen was present.

Sir Gordon Sprigg will introduce a bill in Parliament to prevent the immigration of Asiatics.

The longshoremen at Montreal struck for, and have obtained, a fifty per cent, advance in wages.

Earthquakes have destroyed the Guatemala coffee zone, causing- enor mous losses.

Renewed student disturbances have occurred at Kieff, but are purely Russian.

There has been an unprecedented investment of American capital in Canada.

Seventy thousand Scotch miners have demanded tin advance of 12J per cent, in wages.

By a tramcaf accident at Chatham two persons were killed and 51 dockyard mechanics injured.

The Reichstag, in discussing the Tariff Bill, despite the Government, resolved to extend the minimum duties to imports other than grain.

M. de Witte, the Russian Minister for"*Finance, has dismissed 200 Siberian and Manchurian officials for malversation of funds.

Dr. Webber, the new Bishop of Brisbane,' has raised £5OOO in aid of work in his diocese, and appeals for a further £ 7000 by the end of 1902.

A phonetic alphabet has been introduced into the seminaries in Corea with a view to displacing the hieroglyphics now used.

The citizens of Birmingham will banquet Mr Chamberlain on the 14th of November. Those invited will include members of all political parties.

In the House of Commons Lord Stanley stated that there were still 9600 Boer prisoners unrepatriated, chiefly in India and Ccvlon.

The strength of the South African garrison is now fifty-nine thousand. General Lyttelton hopes to reduce this to half by March next.

Later reports minimise the plague ■outbreak at San Francisco, where it is almost wholly confined to the Chinese quarter.

The Prince and Princess of Wales will probably attend the opening of the St. Louis (U.S.A.) Exposition in 1904.

The boot and shoe factories in Canada have beep consolidated into a trust, with a capital of eight million dollars.

The War Office will in future provide officers of cavalry and horse artillery with two chargers free, and ether mounted officers with one.

The sentence of imprisonment pa-s--ed on Mr McHugh. M.P. for North Leitrim, has been confirmed, excepting the hard labour.

Mr. George Wyndham lias been elected rector of the Glasgow University by a majority of 29 over Mr. John Morley.

Mr Pierpont Morgan is endeavouring to purchase the control of the North Staffordshire coalfields, at a cost of five millions. Many companies are willing to deal.

The Porte states that a band of revolutionists under Zoutcheff, a well-known leader, was defeated, and that Zoutcheff was wounded, but escaped.

Published correspondence shows that the late Mr A. J. Mundell a in 1889 outlined the ultimate settlement of the education question on the basis of the present bill.

George Taylor, a Birmingham clerk, has obtained a decree nisi and £3OO damages for his wife’s adultery at Sydney with Francis Barnes, the cricketer.

The “Times” Athens correspondent declares that filibustering Bulgarian bands, not Turkish soldiery, are burning vilages and committing outrages in Northern Macedonia.

The Czar will shortly visit the King of Italy, and will also visit the Pope privately. lie then goes to Montenegro and Athens, and alsop robably to Constantinople.

The Montreal Chamber of Commerce has refused to assist in the formation of a Canadian hranclu.of the Navy League, alleging that Canada has no need of a navy. The Banish Crown Prince has been cordially received at Potsdam. The visit is interpreted as an official reconciliation between Denmark and Germany.

Reuter’s Agency announces, that Germany has formally notified the Powers interested in China that she does not intend to denounce the commercial treaties.

Lord Charles Beresford, after, visiting- New York to investigate the steamship combine, states that he is convinced it will benefit British trade.

A Polish newspaper published in Paris has been excluded from Germany for the next two years. This is the fourth Polish paper dealt with in this manner.

Lord Curzon reports that the Indian crop prospects are generally favourable. Ninety-seven thousand people are now receiving- famine relief in India.

Britain, Germany, France and Japan have agreed to refer to The Hague Tribunal the construction of the treaty relating to the perpetual leases under which foreigners may hold property in Japan. The French Ministry have stopped the salary of Cardinal Ferrand, Bishop of Atun, for delivering a speech referring to the Government’s “depraving influence” in connection with the closing of clerical schools.

Cateni, a dangerous Anarchist, who recently arrived from Buenos Ayres, has been arrested for exploding a dynamite bomb on the threshold of the Bishop’s Palace at Leghorn. A child was killed by the explosion.

Though Mount (in Martinique) is now calm, the immense opening in the south-west slope has grown to formidable dimensions, and White River is choked near its source.

Turkey has handed over to the Italian Red Sea squadron three ringleaders of the Arab piratical marauders. The restitution of property and. an indemnity for losses caused by the pirates are being arranged.

In the House of Lords Viscount Cranborne stated that Russia’s communication proposing the establishment of direct relations between Russia and Afghanistan regarding frontier matters was received on Feb. 6, 1900.

An alarmist message is published in the New York papers stating that plague exists in San Francisco to a serious extent. It is stated that the epidemic has been concealed for months. Rigorous quarantining is suggested-.

Regarding the Colombian revolution, it is stated that after heavy losses on both sides, General Uribe and 1500 revolutionists capitulated, undertaking to secure the surrender of other revolutionary bands.

A British syndicate, with a million sterling initial capital, has secured land for the utilisation of the falls <<•_ the .Potomac River, to supply Washington with a light and heat motive power.

Mr W. J. Brian, the Presidential candidate, is amongst the members cf a syndicate which has negotiated with the Government of Canada for three million acres of land in Ontario for American settlers. The Government has approved of the terms.

Mrs Hugh Watt, wife of an ex-mem-ber of the House of Commons, has recovered £5OOO damages against Lady Violet Beauchamp, who in a letter to Mr Watt described the plaintiff as “a real devil in human form.”

The Colombian Government, resenting America’s action in policing the railways for the protection of foreigners during the ' insurrection, objects to alienate the land for the canal, but offers 100 years’ lease and demands an annual payment of 600 000 dollars.

The Messageries Maritimes Company at their annual meeting passed no dividend, and resolved to write off half the nominal capital, raise 15 million francs in the shape of preference shares and build cargo steamers. The volcanoes in Guatemala (Central America) are active at present. Serious earthquakes have occurred accompanied by violent detonations in St. Vincent (West Indies). The area of comparative safety from the eruptions of Mount Pelee (Martinique) is much lessened.

Bird Raymond, a -wealthy autoinobilist in New York, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for recklessly colliding with a tramcar and thereby causing injury to twenty-two persons.

Indian troops have been sent to Aden to escort the Boundary Commission. The Porte explains that Turkey’s occupation of territory inhabited by Arabs enjoying British protection was caused by the suspension of the Aden frontier delimitation, and promises that the Turks will withdraw.

The American Board of Naval Construction’has decided that.it would be better to supply armoured cruisers with a superiority of battery power than a slight superiority of speed. Admiral Melville complains that this will render American cruisers inferior to British cruisers of the Drake class. A sudden fire which occurred in the Castleton (?) forest caused a panic among ten thousand Spanish pilgrims, who were ascending a mountain. A terrible stampede occurred, and many fell over a precipice and were killed.

A statue to Elias Lornot, the-fa-ther" of Finnish literature, was unveiled in silence at Helsingfors, the

Governor forbidding the singing of the Finnish anthem and refusing to ahcw speeches to be made unless they were submitted to him for revision.

Berlin newspapers are much per-* turbed regarding Sir Horace Rumbold’s statement contrasting the attitude of the Emperor of Austria to Britain with that of the Germans, who, he declared, wm still Britain's most unrelenting and dangerous foes.

The Government has accepted an amendment in the Education Bill, moved by Colonel Kenyon Slaney, giving the managers the control of religious instruction. The High Church members of the House of Commons protested against the amendment as an insult to the clergy.

A band of men seized a man who was brutally beating his wife, at White Cliffs (N.S.W.), and half hanged him in a mine shaft. They then dropped him to the bottom. The police subsequently rescued the man, who was locked up for ill-using his wife. The avengers are unknown.

The Emperor of China gave an audience to Pakchiasun, the first Korean Minister at Pekin. The Dowager Empress was present. Pakchiabuu’s suite appeared in European military uniforms with a view of emphasising that they were no longer Chinese subjects.

The London County Council has instructed a committee to consider the question of underground locomotion, with a view to introducing a bill involving an expenditure of fifty millions.

The Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at Edinburgh, said he believed the Argentine was free of cattle disease, but before opening British ports they must be satisfied that Argentina was taking proper precautions to prevent its reintroduction.

The English, Scottish and Australian Bank report shows the profits to be £ 170,000. The directors have added 1115,000 to the reserve, declared a dividend of 4 per cent., and carried forward -£13,136. The terminable deposits are shown at £194,500; deposits on current accounts, £2,106,000; cash investments, £921,000; bills, £606,000; advances, £4,164,000.

Sir Horace Rumbold, late Ambassador to Austria, in an article in the “National Review, a tribute to the Emperor of Austria, and declares that he was Britain’s sterling friend throughout the Boer war. He contrasts the Emperor's attitude with that of the Germans,- who, the writer declares; are still Britain’s most unrejenting and dangerous foes.

Replying to a deputation complaining of the treatment Indian subjects received in British colonies (especially the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal), Lord George Hamilton, Secretary for India, emphasised the great distinction between the nations of India with a civilisation older than our own, and the lower forms of coloured races. The former were entitled to more considerate treatment.

Some time ago the employees of the Amalgamated Tin-plate Company, Pittsburg, were asked to accept a temporary reduction of 25 per cent, in their wages in order to prevent a large order going to Wales. Instead of a temporary 25 per cent, reduction a general reduction of 3 per cent, has now been made. This enables the Standard Oil Company tozbuy its required tin plate in America.

It is officially announced that three great jurists, including Baron Cederkranz, the eminent Swedish international law authority, who was Chief Justice at Samoa in 1900, advised King Oscar of Sweden in making the Samoan award £ 1100.

[ln this award England and the United States are held liable for the payment of compensation to the Germans whose properties were damaged in the last Samoan war.]

Captain Roland Thompson, adjutant of the King’s Colonials, and late adjutant of the Australian Horse, was fined £5 for assaulting Captain Hay Clark at church parade in Hyde Park

for representing to the ciblane} at the King’s Colonials that Thompson was expelled from the Australian Horse. Thompson, in mitigation, said he had not heard the charges against himself before Clark represented' them to the colonel.

Messages despatched from aboard the steamer Anglia, at I*iji, announcing the completion of the Pacific cable were delivered to the King today at Newmarket, where he was attending the races. In connection with the completion of the cable, the Federal Postmaster has invited a numbers of prominent entlemen, including the State Ministry, to luncn at southport on Monday. Congratulatory messages will be despatched. Lord Tennyson has despatched a congratulatory message to Mr. Chamberlain on the completion of the cable.

Detectives in London have discovered a press weighing 25 tons, used in printing forged Bank of England notes, also engraved copper steel plates, and many tools. Six foreigners were arrested in connection with the forgeries. The evidence disclosed the fact that they were also connected with similar swindles for which five arrests‘were made in March last. Jafiob Schmidt, the. chief forger, has turned King’s evidence.

Speaking at Ayr Sir H. CampbellBannerman denied that the Opposition used obstructive tactics on- the Education Bill, and added that it was doomed to failure if passed. He considered the peace had secfired British supremacy as far as any document could, but wise and generous statesmanship was needed to restore harmony and prosperity. It would be wise to pass or sponge over purely political offences. He made a strong appeal for party union, but he ruled Lord Rosebery and the National Liberal League out.

The Governor of New Caledonia, interviewed here, declared that there is a strong- feeling, not only in the archipelago itself. but amongst French residents, in favour of the annexation of the New Hebrides to France. He expressed strong opposition to the renewal of transportation of convicts to New Caledonia, and said that nearly all the residents were opposed to it, and Australia need have no fear in the matter. Sir E. Barton states that the assent of France has been secured to the appointment of a Land Court to deal with disputes concerning lands in the New Hebrides. Only the details remain to be settled. There is no need to apprehend French preponderance in the Isjands or to be alarmed at the suggested French annexation.

The International Conference on Tuberculosis has opened at Berlin, and the proceedings have aroused great interest. M. Nocard, the French veterinary authority, insisted that bovine tuberculosis was transmissible to man, especially by means of milk. He held that it <vas imperative to inspect cowsheds and destroy infected animals. Dr. Koch adhered to his last year’s statements that bovine tuberculosis was not transmissible to man. He had only discovered 28 cases suggesting that it was transmissible, and none of these had been satisfactorily established. He maintained that the only successful way of combating tuberculosis was to provide better dwellings and workshops, to avoid overcrowding, and isolate all infected persons.

Sir N. R. O'Conor, the British Minister at Constantinople, complained to the Sultan of the .Turkish soldiery’s frequent violation of the Aden frontier, and warned him that if this was continued Indian troops would be sent to stop it. The Sultan immediately convoked his Cabinet.

The “Porte” has advised Britain that she does not intend to withdraw the Turkish troops until the Aden frontier question Is settled. Britain, however, insists that the withdrawal must precede the frontier negotiations. The Sultan of Turkey directed his Minister for Foreign Affairs t<F reconsider the advice the. Minister gave in reference to the Aden hinterland. It has since been reported that the difficulty has been settled satisfactorily.