Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3549, 20 July 1905, Page 2

Various Cabled Items.

FAMINE IN RUSSIA

At the English tennis Championship meeting Broolcs beat Wessely by 3 sets to love. Wilding beat Kinze by 3 to 1. The “ Daily Mail’s ” St. Petersburg’ correspondent reports the total failure ot the crops in many districts of central, eastern and northern, Russia. The enrolment of the reserves intensi* fied the danger of famine.

When the Kaiser received Count von Bulow aboard the yacht Hohen* z-'llern with a report of France's ac* ceptanceof the Moroccan Conference, he gave orders to dress and man the ship, officers were paraded in full dress at head of the ship’s stops, and the Kaiser led with three cheers. The Germans admit a syndicate has purchased the Whitworth Estate in Neath, Glamorganshire, containing the best nnworked steam coal in the Uoiied Kingdom. Bulgaria’s Note urges the Powers to intervene to remove the intolerable situation created at Vilayet and Adria* nople through the Porte’s effort to compel Bulgarian -settlers to forsake their homes. I

Shereefitln troops routed the Moroc* can Pretender’s forces on the gth» The cavalry stopped to loot the camp instead of pursuing. President Roosevelt has directed the criminal prosecution of Holmes, who, he says, is a greater scoundrel than if he had stolen Government money, as he used the Government to deceive out* siders and make himself and others rich. Homes was assisting the Secretary of the U.S. Statistical Bureau to pre* nare a report on the cotton crops. By an ingenious method of telegraphing hy using the window blinds at the Government office, he communicated the result of their investigations to a con* federate outside, who sent the informa* tion to New York brokers, and they thus operated on the cotton exchange and made huge profits.

In the course of an interview coni cerning the recent divorce of Sweden and Norway (owing to the latter’s de» mand to appoint h*r own foreign Coo* sals being refused), King Oscar ex* pressed the hope that the Swedes would remain calm. It would be merely hanging a millstone round their necks .to restore the union, His Majesty added that the forcible ap* pointment of a Swedish prince as King of Norway would only occasion distrust in both countries.

At the instance of Queen Alexandra a new Red Cross Society has been formed by amalgamating all existing societies designed to assist the sick and wounded in war.

Owing to the buoyancy of the revenue the Dominion Parliament has ' approved the Government’s proposal to increase the salary of Sir Wilfred Laurier (the Premier) to £2400, and to give the leader of the Opposition /’I4OO. The salaries of members of the House of Commons and Senators are raised to £4OO. Provision is made fir ex-Ministers who have served five consecutive years as heads ot departments to receive pensions of £1250. The Imperial Government has agreed to modification of a new scheme of Indian army administration, which both Lord Kitchener and Lord Curzon have approved. The township of Tocumwai, on the Murray river, is still partially inundated, but the river is now receding.