LATEST CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3742, 19 January 1907, Page 2

LATEST CABLES.

London, Jan. 17. The Divisional Court discharged the Magistrate’s order for the extradition of A. P. Percival, formerly treasurer to Trinity Colie ge, Melbourne, on a charge of embezzling College funds. The grounds of the refusal of extradition were that the evidence was insufficient to show that the offence was punishable in Victoria with jryear’s imprisonment. The estate of the late Mr George, of Adelaide, has been sworn at ,£718,000. He bequeathed £SOOO to Adelaide charities.

London, Jan. 17. The King and Queen open the South African Products Exhibition in London in February. St. Petersburg, Jan. 17.

Eighty arrests have been made in connection with a new plot for an armed insurrection in St. Petersburg. . ,

Morocco, Jan. 17

The Sultan of Morroco, on the grounds that Raisuli’s acts are beyond his control, refuses to pay the European claims arising out of his acts, though he ' appointed Raisuli to be Governor.

London, Jan. 17. The Bank rate has been reduced to 5 per cent.

New York, Jan. 17. The United States Senate passed the Shipping Subsidy Bill, providing larger subsidies to American shipping, subsequently the House of Representatives, by a majority of one, defeated the Bill. London, Jan, 17. Sir Conan Doyle, after interview ing Mr Gladstone, expressed his confidence that an enquiry would be held into the Edalji case.