GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3752, 16 February 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

London, Feb. 14. It is reported that Vice-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford declines to command the Channel Fleet under the new limited conditions. The Admiralty states that Lord Berestord accepted the position before going to America on his private affairs.

A case of cerebro-spinal meningitis occurred at Lambeth. A great rise has taken place in the price ot tea owing to the Russian demand for Indian and Ceylon brands and the weather affecting the crops. New York, Feb. 14. President Roosevelt, in a message to Congress, advocates the conservation of coal and other fuel resources on State-owned lands. He also urges Government control of the Western public land pastures. Capetown, Feb, 14. Mr Louis Botha has sent a message to the British people,' declaring that British supremacy is safer in the hands of the Boers than of cosmopolitan, capitalists. After the Vereeninging Treaty of Peace King Edward was the Boers’ King and the British flag was the Boers’ flag. The Boers entertained no hostility towards the mines, and the talk about the wholesale repatriation of the Chinese was nonsense. Nothing would be done to embarrass the mines regarding unskilled labour. He was prepared to accept English as the compulsory language. Brussels, Feb. 14.

The fumes from a cargo of matches on a steamer bound from Gothehburgh to Antwerp suffocated four passengers, including Schneriak, Chief of a large gang of Russian terrorists.

St. John, Feb. 14

Mr Bonn, of the Newfoundland Assejnbly, fiercely assailed Lord Elgin’s vivendi policy, saying it sacrificed colonial interests without the colony’s consent. Morocco, Feb. 14.

Ben Mansur, a rebel chief, was shot dead in revenge for forsaking Raisuli.

London, Feb. 14

The Westminster Gazette states “in the labour ordinance we had arranged with France, we are not wholly masters, but the new rules are a vast improvement on the old blackbirding system.” New York, Feb 14.

Men and women fought fiercely for places in the Larchmont’s boats, and many persons were drowned. Ot the people who left the ship in one boat, numbering nine, seven were frozen to death, one cut his throat, and one waded ashore.