LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 September 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[per press association —copyright]

Received this day at 9 31a.m. Welcomed Rain. Bombay, September 27. There have been heavy rains for three days over almost the whole of India, and prospects of crops are reassuring.

Loubet Visits Russia. ■ Paris, September 27. President Loubet will visit Bussia in April. English Election. London, September 27. The election for Lanarkshire resulted as follows;

Sir William Rattigen (Unionist)... 5,673 Cecil Harmsworth (Liberal) ... 4,769 Smillie (Labour and pro-Boer) ... 2,900 The Chinese Affair. Paris, September 27. General Voijron, who commanded the French forces in China, has returned to France. He assorts that Waldersee was only nominally the Commandcr-ln-Chiel and the other Powers refused to obey him.

Indian Traders. Durban, September 27. The Immigration Department of Natal refused to admit two hundred Indian traders, whe proceeded on to Capetown. Review of Reviews Bill. London, September 27. _

Stead, interviewed, said he was certain that Fitchett, who controls the Review of Reviews in Australasia, was incapable of expressing any opinion about Seddon in return for £250. If New Zealand shared the cost of bringing out a special settlement, it was intended to benefit the colony and not to glorify Seddon. Cause of Cancer. A newspaper correspondent having suggested that disease, and especially that of cancer, was due to the consumption of frozen meat, and that diseases were induced in animals owing to being overdriven and excessively branded, Mr. Copeland Sinclair, the trade expert of Victoria, and Cameron took up the cudgels on behalf of the colonies, repudiated tho statements and threw ridicule am them.

The Papanui Fire.

London. Sept 27.

The fire on the Papanui is extinguished. All cargo in number three hold is badly damaged. The sheep are now being dis-, charged.