LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 February 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[by electric telegraph.—copyright]

(per press association.)

Leyds robbed of State Documents. Received this day at 9 1 a.m. London, Feb, 18. Leyds complains of the theft of his hand bag at Brussols containing diplomatic documents.

Execution of Chinese Boxer 3. Chang Chiktung has beheaded eight alleged Boxer leaders of the Hankow mobs, A Dead King. Sophia, February IS. Mob 3 at Belgrade incensed at Milan being interred in Hungary hooted King Alexander and stoned the palace windows, The Budget. London, February 11, In anticipation of the Budget, enormous clearings have been inado from bonded stores throughout Great Britain, of tea have been withdrawn. Company at a Discount. The new Waitekauri Extended Ci« being floated with a capital of a hundred thousand, issued !JGO,OOO live shilling shares at 8s ,-Jd, Obituary. George Graham, at one time a New Zealand Legislator. Cricket. The Sussex Country Cricket committee resolved at tho recent action of country captains in regard to bowlers throwing was ultra vires. Trade Clashes. Owing to tho beetroot sugar enjoying a reduction on returns of excise duty on leaving Russia, tho American Government has imposed countervailing duty. Russia has retaliated by adding thirty per cent duty to American hardware, steel and iron, Tho American Secretary of the Treasury has imposed a countervailing duty on Belgian sugar equal to the prevailing bounty paid by Belgium. Thero has been a great decrease in German home trade, especially in iron manufactures. Fifty per cent of the Berlin building trades are unemployed.