CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3567, 31 August 1905, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

Various Cabled Items* The “Standard" reports that a Bntisb-German combine has arranged to raise the price of aoreiri ufty per cent, and to refrain from ternational competition. ■ The Moors at Cavija, near Tangier, fired - their rifles at a Spanish ship wounding a sailor. \ Recent discoveries in Smyrna included sixteen bomb factories. The Armenian Committee intended to fire the gasworks and destroy' park of the city. Many grenades and revolvers were found.

Lieutenant Paasche surprised 1000 rebels at Kipo, East Africa, Tha rebels left 78 dead and many ware drowned in the river Rufigi.

A recent decision in Canada has raised the question whether the Commonwealth can deport Kanakas be*' yond territorial limits. The High Court of Ontario holds that there is no( power to enforce legislation beyond the boundaries of the country. The Prime Minister awaits the official report before expressing Ira opinion. Edwin Holmes has been indicted for defrauding the Washington Government by juggling with the cotton returns by allowing particulars of the crops to leak out, and thus giving an advantage to confederates who were operating on the cotton

exchange. Norway and Sweden have appointed Commissioners to negotiate for a dissolution. The first meeting takes place on Thursday. The London County Council is offering domestic servants scholarships, giving three months’ training in the schools of cookery. Great damage has been done by floods in Ireland. Nearly 3| inches of rain fell in Dublin in 24 hours. There is excitement on the Johannesburg Exchange owing to the discovery that the popular Le Comte field in Madagascar is largely “ salted.” Kieran, the Australian, won the 500 yards at Leeds in 6 mins 7 saw. The damag" 1 done to the fourmasted barque Marlborough Hill, which caught fire while loading oil for Sydney, is slight. Advice# from Jacksonville, Florida, state that the steamship Become, foundered in a storm, 20 being drowned and two saved. It is stated by the Parisian newspapers that the French Minister has failed to induce the Sultan to release the Algerian who was arrested in Morocco for causing a disturbance. The French Minister has been therefore ordered to leave Fez. the capital of Moroco King Alfonso has joined the astronomers from many stations who are met at Burgos, in the north of Soain. to witness the total eclipse of the sun. Several obaervatoriet have been established in Algeria and at T as Palmas. j The British Association was feted at and Ladysmith, where the delegates visited the battlefield. Chinese deserters from the Rand mines murdered a Chinese trader, whose store near Krugersdorp was raided Some marauding bands are still uncnptnred. v any festivities took place at Rwinemunde, a German port on the Baltic sea, during - the visit of the British fleet. A few Americana aboard a tourist steamer were hissed by their fellow passengers for cheering the British ships. Some of the newspapers are ill-natured, but on the whole the reception exceeds mere official cordiality.