CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3564, 24 August 1905, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Various Gabled items. Colonel Leutwein has resigned the governorship of German Mouth went Africa and Colonel Von Lindeguuit succeeds him. A plot has been discovered at Smyrna to blow up the Government buildings, the Consulates and foreign shipping. One hundred and fifty Armenians were arrested. The Maritime Board of Trade of the three eastern provinces of Canada has resolved to memorialise the Dominion Government to secure the confederation of the British West Indies with Canada. The Orthodox Russo - Creek Church authorities are organising % mission to visit the islands of the Australasian' Archipelago. An employee at the Footseray (Melbourne) woollen mills died from strongilus, an intestinal rvorm prevalent in tropical climates. The man became infected by handling cotton from Egypt. Venezuela has ordered in Europe five million sterling worth of torpedoes, guns and ammunition. Gallay, a clerk in tlr> Gomptoir Descompte, Paris, has absconded, taking .£IOO,OOO. He left Havre aboard his own yacht.

A mixed band of Turks and Greeks, all in Turkish uniform, murdered seventeen Bulgarians and kidnapped four at Khiiderop, near Fiorina,.

Since January tbe Berlin author!, ties have allowed the Salvationists to march the streets. Twenty thousand attended a meeting at Templehofer Parade Ground.

For widening Piccadilly, near St. James street, the London County Council paid £34 per square foot.

M. Santos Dumont made a successful trial of a new airship at Tourville. It carries a screw in front and is thus drawn by the mqtor instead of being driven. It manoeuvered with facility both with and against the wind. The appointment of Lord Minto as Gavernor-Genqal was received quietly in India. It is reaxled as being dr o-- non-no'itical. Germany is sending 150 marines, several quick-firers, and two small crpisers to West Africa, The British authorities in Bechuanaland disarmed Maliarero and the other captains and 750 Hereros. General Lindequist’s appointment is equivalent to General von Trotha’s supercession. The mortality amongst the Hereros’ prisoners at the Swakopround concentration camp during February, March and April equalled 720 per thousand per annum.