CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, 31 December 1904, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, Dec, 29. The Committee of the Trade Union Congress and Federation of Trades Unions’report on the unemployed urges the better distribution of Government works in order to prevent alternating rush np/j. stag*' nation, and the extension o'flVtr Lang’s scheme for attracting workers from London to the TH*6vinces. AN ENGLISH NURSE EXPELLED. An Englisjr nurse in the Imperial family hasbeen expelled from Russia onj&’tfspicion of espionage. THE CZAR CRITICISED. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 29. ■s A largo meeting of workers in St. ,■ Petersburg insisted upon the neoeav sity of stopping the war and protested against the Czar’s reference ,• to the Zemstvos action as insolent ■. and tactless. All stood silently in L honour of the memory of M. de h Plehve’s murderer. t- 3 BIG DRAINAGE SCHEME. r The London County Council is organising a drainage scheme which will coat seven millions, and involv- ; ing three hundred miles of main and flood ewers. CHINA AND THE POWERS. With regard to the undertaking I cabled on Nov. 15th, Sir E. M. I- Satow, the British Minister at Pekin, ■ supports China in resisting the attempt of the three Powers to compel her to sign the gold bonds and then pay in aiver at an arbitrary rate, favouring the Russian, French - and German banks. A SLUMP IN COTTON. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. There is a siump in cotton in New York and the price is the lowest for three years. One firm of ginners reports that the crop will produce 12£ million bales. Farmers in Georgia have burnt a quantity in order to induce others to destroy their surplus crop. TURKEY BA' KS DOWN. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 29. The Porte has cancelled the Powers’ demands for the appointment of additional gendarmes and officers in Macedonia. SOUTH AFRICA. * CAPETOWN, Dec, 29. The Dutch journal in Pretoria states the Boer leaders, after conferring with Lord Milner, have rejected his scheme of representative government, which included twenty- : five elective and twelve nominated members, declaring that the- en- '■ franohisement must be commen- ■ surate with the Boers who had a permanent stake in the country. Though abortive, the relations between Lord Milner and the leaders were less frigid. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. > . SYDNEY, Dec. 29. A local merchant advocates substituting a weekly service, via Van- ' couver, for the Suez. Mails could ’ b.e landed in London in 32 days by using 16 knot boats across the V Pacific. He believes New Zealand V might join the service by sending ■X'-.mails to Fiji in sixteen knot connecting steamers, & ' MELBOURNE, this day. ft The shipowners deny that the ■ combine will result in a reduction of wages, though they admit that a large number of hands may be f-ithrown out of employment. The preparations for floating the »Aitotrftlia are expected to prove J/effective in about three weeks.