What the cables Day.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 21, 25 May 1899, Page 15

What the cables Day.

Increasing activity is being shown in the direction of initating an export trade from Manchester to Australia. Mr Cockburn, Agent-General for South Australia, and Mr W P. Reeves. Agent-General for New Zealand, will attend the' Tuberculosis Conference at Berlin. | Signor Crispi, in an article, declares that the invitation to I America to participate in the Peace Conference sets up a precedent | for her intervention in all European questions. i The Government have decided to convert the Imperial Institute into national property. The last wing will be allotted to the London University. A letter written by a sergeant of sharp-shooters has been published in Paris. The writer states that Major Marchand shot and hanged runaway porters, and made women his luggagebearers, while advancing towards the Nile. Mr W. T Stead his hrvn allow, d to deliver a lecture to the British roulni's m St. Petersburg. He denounced the censorship over all publications brought into the country as idiotic and mischievous. He complained that no peace society was allowed to be organised in Ru.ssia. Seven Englishmen and one Dane were arrested at Johannesburg duriDg the early part of last week, and conveyed to Pretoria on a charge ot enlisting men for service against the Transvaal. It is alleged tint 200(1 men had already been enrolled Some account* declare that several of the aujused weip cither British officers or ex-officers, but this is doubted. The British agent expressed to President Kruger regret at the incident, especially on the eve of a friendly understanding. President Kruger hoped it would not interfere with his meeting with hir A. Milner. The plot was discovered through a detective, who pretended to join the movement, and watched the growth of the scheme for four months.