LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 December 1901, Page 4

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] English ¥ French Railways. Paris December 23, Le Temps accuses the British Government of instigating the construction of the Zeila-Harrar railway in opposition to the Jibuted line. Outrage on German Consulate. St Pktbr-bubg, December 23. Twenty students at Warsaw received sentences varying from a fortnight to three months for their recant Outrage onthe Qorrpan Consulate.

Biots at Buda Pesth. Buda Pksth, December 23. Eight thousand unemployed paraded the streets of Pesth and had a fierce fight with the police, whose swords wounded many. Shops were stoned and pillaged. 100 tradesmen and assistants were injured. 30 arrests were made. The Persian Gulf Trouble. London, Dee 23.. Reuter’s Constantino) lo correspondent states that when the Turkish flag was hoisted at Mabaroukb,s palace the Commander of the British gunboat hauled it down, substituting Mabaroukh’a flag as a token of his independence. Train Collisions. Paeis, Deo 23. An express collided with a tramcar at a level crossing in Lyons, killing four and injuring 20.

Berlin, Dec 23,

A horse straying on the railway at Altsnheke was mangled and clogged the wheels and stopped the train during the prevalence of a fog. A train coming up behind collided and 15 were killed and 30 injured. Tha Chinese Difficulty. London, Dec 23. Ching Wangwen Sha is conferring with M. Lessar to request an early withdrawal of the Russian troops from Manchuria except a limited railway guard. They oppose the limitation of Chinese troops in Manchuria and ask for an early surrender of Niuehwang, the Shanghai railway, and the abandonment of the Russian claim to the mining monopoly. M. P’s Sentenced.

Hayder, the member of the Commons or Roscommon South, and a number of others have received sentences of 21 days’ imprisonment at Cas-leyar on a charge ci taking part in an unlawful assembly. Ai appeal is demanded on the question of the jurisdiction of the^Uourt.