LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 May 1901, Page 4

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[by electric telegraph.—-copveight]

[per press association.]

Canadian Ship-building.

London, May 23.

Canada has offered the British shipbuilders a bonus to construct ships in Canada,

A Monster Battle. Ship. America ha s planned >attle ship of sixteen thousand tons. American Wheat Supply. The American visible wheat supply is .! 54.f40.000 h shels. The Bubonic Plague. London, May 23. Four cases of plague have occurred at causing a panic. Port Elizabeth. Withdrawal of American Troops from Pekin. Chaffee and all the American troops at Pekin have been withdrawn. Wharf Labor at Sydney. A circular from the Sydney Stevedores Association dated March 14th, regarding Sydney labor and amount, of wages paid to coal lumpers, has .been published. The circular which suggested that greater facilities should be afforded British labourers and workmen to come to Sydney, created a sensation, many shipping agents making enquiries on the matter from the New South Wales AgentGeneral.

Arabi Pasha Pardoned. Received this day at 9 4 a. m. Cairo, May 23. The Ehedine has pardoned Arabi Pasha, who is living in exile in Ceylon. This will allow him to return to Egypt.

The Balkan Complication. Vienna, May 23. Golochowski, Minister for Foreign affairs, addressing Hungarian delegation, intimated that Austria intended to preserve Balkan interests, and referred to the suspicious Bulgarian agitation in Macedonia. He commended Ferdinand’s belated efforts to check activity in Macedonia. He advised Turkey to ameliorate her administration in Macedonia. London, May 24

The leading Austro-Hungarian journals declare that the gravity |of M Golachhowski’s warning is intended to repress the restlessness of the minor Balkan States.

The Sultan apologised under Compulsion

Constantinople, May 23,

Before the Sultan apologised admitting the illegality of the Portes action relative to Foreign Post Offices, three British warships were ordered to Salconica. France and Austria also decided to participate in the naval demonstration.

King of Italy’s Murderer Suicides. Rome, May 23.

Bresci, who murdered the King of Italy, committed suicide in the penitentiary of Santa Stefano. The Riots in Russia. St. Petersburg, May 24.

In the riots at Viborg, a quarter of St. Petersburg, 20 workmen were injured, and hundreds arrested.

Six police were killed, including an officer.

The workmen employed at Obonskoff naval arsenal, when refused eight hours and higher wages rioted, storming the troops and killing several.

Numerous arrests were made and many rioters killed and injured.

Yolcanic Eruption in Java.

London. May 24.

An eruption of the volcano of Keloit devastated six districts in Java with great loss of native life.

Narrow Escape of Lord Roberts. Lord Roberts opened the Naval and Military Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.

When about to enter his carriage the horses bolted. A panic seized the crowd of ,'onlodkers and numbers were thrown down and five were hurt. Lord and Lady Roberts narrowly escaped uninjured. The Chinese Indemnity.

The Foreign Ministers rejected the American proposal to reduce the indemnity, and agreed to increase the import duties an effective 5 per cent.

Germany supports the British proposals for the payment of the indemnity.