Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3506, 6 April 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

MINERS ENTOMBED. Ni;Vv York, April 4. Through an exposition at Joseph Leiter’s mine at Ricgler, Illinois, thirty non-unionists were entombed. It is reported that fifteen were hilled. The affair is suspected to he the result of an outrange. AFGHANISTAN. London, April 4. It is understood that as a result of Louis Dane’s mission Afghanistan doe* not obtain a port, but will receive ft definite guarantee against external attacks in return for unknown concessions. Apparently the Afghans are still hostile to railway concessions. ADULTERATION OF BUTTER. London, April 4. Large quantitities of colonial butter are being shipped to Holland and there mixed, in the proportion ot about 50 per cent., with a new adulterant hitherto undectahle by analysis. The butter is then reshipped to England, where it is sold as Dutch. By this means, a profit, of about thirty shillings per hundredweight is made. The Board of Agriculture is inquiring into the matter. lIMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. London, April 4. In the House of Commons Earl Percy referred Mr Howard Vincent to Lord Salisbury’s speech on preference within the Empire, published in the "‘l'ijnes ” on 20th June, 1891. In the House of Lords the Marquis of Lansdowne, in referring to Macedonia, said that no reforms would be *ati«factory unless they secured a decentralised financial system under international control. MINOR MATTERS EPITOMISED. Admiral Diebogatoffs squadron is at Jibutil coaling. Mrs Margaret Morrinton, a New Zealander, lost £l4O between San Francisco and Vancouver. The authorities at Vancouver and New York refuse to allow indigent immigrants to land. China has arranged an opium monopoly, producing xoo.000,00 a yen (about £ 10,000,000)* annually. Ttifc Crown Prince of Servia, while out shooting, in a fit of passion shot a Macedonian beater in the bead, destroying the sight of one of bis eyes. The New South Wales Government ha* appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into matters arising out of the recent disclosures in connection with the Lands Department. As*a result of the lat® Atlantic rate war the Cunard Company will not pay a dividend for the year ending December, and borrows from the reserve to meet depreciation.

Emir Halazin, near Lake Tchad, and the last great hostile Nigerian chief,.has submitted to the {British and he has requested Sir Frederick Lugard to send a British resident. Owing to meningitis and other epidemics in New York, 150 inspectors bare been engaged to report on the •anitai'y conditions of cverv house. Every person will be subjected to examination. ; ES&S