Various Cables.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3518, 6 May 1905, Page 3

Various Cables.

THE CRETAN OUTBREAK, Atufns,. l\tey 3. The Cretan outbreak is degenerating into robbery and incendiarism. Bight gendarmes have been shot. Prince George has asked for assistance from the protecting Powers. , A British dctaclnnant lowered the Greek flag on Gnv em i>umt House in Candia. The Brook flag was also lowered at R-—; vmo (on the noath coast ot the vsland.) HRNSVAAL AFFAIRS. London, May 2. Referring to Genera l Botha’s com"raents on the Transvaal constitution, the “ Times ” objects to giving men unlimited sovereign rights who three years ago endeavoured to sweep the British people of South Africa into the sea. Nevertheless, adds the journal, the Boers are on probation, and iff they act above lip service, Britain is willing to extend representative government. The “’Westminister Gazette ” recomsnyada the Boers to try the const it utTo a w ith a view to obtaining a better one later on. THE CHICAGO STRIKE. Nkw York, May 4. Much rioting has. taken place at Chicago, where largo numbers of teamsters are an strike. Three persons have been killed and a hundred injured. Negro drivers, when attacked by the strikers, use firearms freely. MINOR MATTERS EPITOMISED. The number of sugar .producers in Queensland increased from 9097 in 1802 to 3222 in 1901. The producers of whi m grown sugar increased by 381. An important discovery of oil has been it, the vicinity of the Williams rivfer between Maitland and Dungag 'near Newcastle,) NSW, The precise nature of t-bo discovery him not yet been tpaade public. Admiral O’Neil, a high American authority on gunnery, referring to the < * Daily Graphic’s ” recent article commenting on Britain’s newest battleships, says the British have no cause for alarm respecting their naval guns, which are as good as any nation’s. At a congress at Berlin to consider matters in connection with the use and application of the Rontgen rays Professor Lessnr said he considered it inexpedient to apply the rays except in serious cases of cancer, > though the rays remove pain. The | professor strongly urged the: superiority of tlm Rontgon treat- . ment to the use of the knife in cases ; of dangerous cancer, and said that j out of a hundred eases he had only , three failures. Professor Lessar considered the Uontgen rays of little use for the removal of large tumors, j