Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3562, 19 August 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

The European vintage is likely to be sho.t in quantity but is of excellent quality. Billington swam 500 metres at lonville in G min 51 secs. This time is a record. Famine and starvation are general in Andulusia, Spain, Children are eating fir cones and wild cactus. There is intense indignation at the Government’s inaction and there are signs of revolt. Fifteen thousand labourers are roving the country. Many of them are armed with rifles. The text of General Vhm TrotlftCs proclamation, which was recently repealed, has aroused indignation in Berlin. He styles himself “ The Great General of a Mighty h'mperor.” His latest act of indiscretion is that h# ascribes the renewed activity of the Hereros to Prince von Bulow’s repeal of his proclamation. This is considered to make him absolutely impossible in the eyes of the authorities. The Spanish Government has ordered the authorities to open soup kitchens and has asked the directors of the railways to repair the lines in order to employ as many men as possible. The Minister for Agriculture declares that there are 200,000 men workless and that a million and-a-half sterling will not be suffleieut for relief.