Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3548, 18 July 1905, Page 2

Various Cabled Items.

Bv an explosion in a colliery ire Glamorganshire, Wales, 125 lives were lost, including 4O hoys. The Australian cricketers defeated the Derbyshire County team by 105 A world’s conference of the Baptist Church is being held in London, attended lr- poo delegates. ; Canada’s militia is to be raised to a peace Strength of 60,000, and eventual V to 100,000. It is .recommended that every Canadian under 21 .years of age should undergo 12 days Laming toi

The higher prices obtained lor New Zealand butter, as compared with New South Wales, are attributed to to the grading system. ' France is sending a senator to London to study the methods of the British Colonial Office, with a view of placing h°r own Colonial .Office on. a better footing. > A new Mahdi, 17 years ol age, _is ,r trying to raise a followirg ui Hiitish Somaliland. ' An attack, hv moonlighters on a Protestant grazier's house -in 1 n’lnty Roscommon, Ireland, _ w:is reppUed, one of the assailants being shot. While searching for. arms in Crete a party of British troops was.attacked- v by insurgents, Two men were wounded. - . ;

By the bursting of a steam pipe on H.M.S. Implacable at Gibraltar thijee stokers were killed and six injured. A scene was caused in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly by a crowd of unemployed who filled the “Stringers’Gallery.” One harangued the .House, and the gallery was then cleared. As a Parthian shot the men called out: “We want work, Jl<pt pa'aver from members.” M. Delcfisse, French ex-Foreigrt Minister, considers it useless to thiltk of lighting Britain on the sea, but that it would he better to utilise British power so as to make a declaration of war by Germany against France impossible. He deplored France’s agreement to the Moroccin con- . ferencc. Discontent among Russian seamen at Reval led to the disarming, of two crewsA Seven hundred men complained of the flood .served to them, and the commandcr-in-chief, having | tasted it, admitted the justice of t(ie criticisms.

The Aliens Bill, for the regulation o! alien immigration into England, has been taken through committee in the House of Commons,

The second reading of the Scottish Churches Settlement Bill was carried in Hie House of Commons In 20a votes to 6j. Replying in the House of Commons to a criticism by Sir Henry CampbellBannerman that Lord Robers had been treated with indignity by the War Office voted a non-effective rdlowance of /5000 a year as a douceur Mr Arnold-Forster said such remarks were unjust and unfounded. Lord Roberts iiad been a parly to every step taken.

The overturning of a lamp in a mine, at Dortmund. Westphalia, caused a conflagration in the workhms. Thirtynine men were emtomhed; -with no hope of rescue. The bye-election for Carlisle to fill th« vacancy caused by raising Mr Gullv (the late Sneaker) to the pe.rage resulted as follow-.: -Mr F. W, Chance (Liberal) 3616, Mr Anderson (Conservative) 2586. French naval officers, declare that it was not the'agreement between M. Rouvier and Prince von Radolin, the German Ambassador, which averted war, but England's firm support of France. The German newspapers admit that Emperor William informed the King of Italy that he was unable to regard the Anglo-French Alliance and M. Delcasse’s anti-German policy with passive indifference. The French Minister in Italy informed M. Rouvier the Premier: ‘hence M. DelcasseV downfall.

During a cinematograph entertain, ment in the West f Maitland Town Hall the gas generator exploded. A score of the audience were injured by flying fragments and in the stampede winch followed, but none was seriously hurt. The' building* is considerable damaged. King Edward has 'contcrred the Knight Grand Cross of the Bath on Count Katsura, Premier of Japan, and the Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George on Baron Koniura, Japanese Minister of Fore gn Affiiirs# King Edward has thanked the Baptists’Congress for a message sent to himself and Queen Alexandra. He assures the Congress that their action is greatly appreciated.