Various Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3592, 31 October 1905, Page 3

Various Items.

The Renown, with Prince of Wales and party aboard, has arrived at Port Said.

London, October 37. General Booth had a great reception at the Guildhall. He declared the Army was now generally recognised as. being the triend of the homeless. , Berlin Oct 27. Kaiser has cordially congratulated Prince Leopold ot Lippe-Det-tnold on establishing hiu right of succession.

[For some time thcLippe succession has been in dispute. Prince Leopold, who is the son of Count Ernst of Lippc-Biesterfeld, and is 34 years «f age, assumed the Regency in succession to his father in September of last year, but his right was disputed by Prince Adolphus of SchaumbargLippe and the matter was referred to the Court at Leipzig for decision.] Paris, October 27. ,

M. Lebaudy’s steerable balloon ascended 15,000 feet in Paris. It travelled 30 ft per second against the wind and was easily directed. The military officers are amazed and consider the trials conclusive.

Tokio, Oct 27.

A large Japanese conversion of external and internal loans will be launched at the earliest opportunity. London, Oct 28.

The Trades Unions are defying Mr Sim, the duel Registrar ot Friendly Societies, who has ruled that the Unions cannot legally pay their members of Parliament. The Unions declare he passed the rules ot the Boot and Shoe Operatives’ Union containing the very provision for payments he has now disallowed.

The bye-election for Hampstead resulted as tollows:—Mr Fletcher (Unionist) 4225; Mr Rowe (Liberal) 3803. Replying toan apparentlyunguarded remark by Lord Rosebery at Stoarbridge when sounding a warning as to foreign relations, the Hon. St J. Brodrick, speaking at Guilford, emphatically declared that there were no outstanding questions between the British and German Governments, nor was there anything to prevent their friendship. He ridiculed the story published by Le Matin that England would land soldiers in Schleswig in the event of FrancoGerman hostilities.