LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 November 1901, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

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Russia’s Claim on Manchuria.

London, November 8. The Standard’s Shanghai correspond* ent states that it is understood the Chinese Minister at St Petersburg warned the Dowager that llussia fully intends to retain Manchuria if the Convention denounce the terms, and that this is gravely menacing to China’s independenca.

e A Tripartite Delimitation, 1 Great Britain, Egypt and Abyssinia have settled the main outlines of the delimitations of the Soudan frontier. . A mixed Anglo-Turkish Commission 3 delimitates the hinterland of Aden. 5 A European Conference. Berlin, November 8. The Cologne Gazette says that there - are indications that France and Eussia are intimating a European Conference early in 1902 for the cxection, not the revision, of the Berlin Treaty in regard to Armenia and the Balkans. A Collision. London, November 8. The Flushing mail boat Koningin Kegentes collided with the cruiser Proserpine at Sheerness during a fog in the night. All were transferred to the cruiser and the steamer beached. Received this day at S 56 a m. Loan and Mercantile. London, Nov. 8. W. C. Dawes has been elected chairman of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile. More Troops for South Africa. Four hundred of the Grenadier Coldstream Guards 800 Fusiliers and others embarked from Southampton for South Africa. Baden Powell starts for the Cape on the l(sth, Church Changes. The Bishop of Worcester has resigned. Canon Charles-Gore, one of the Canons hini ° Utlar y ° f Westmiustei '' succeeds Red Gum Paving. The municipality of Westminster has adopted the committee’s [report on red gum paving. [German Socialism. o • Berlin, November 8. ihc Socialists won five additional seats at the municipal elections. Chinese Court. Shanghai, November 8. J he Chinese Court remains at Kaifengiu for twenty days. °