GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 5 March 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

St. Petersburg, March 3. Six men murdered Baron Bud berg, a member of the Council at the Russian Empire, and formerly Chief of the Esthonian nobility, at his country house. The chief of the Gendarmes on the Trans-Caucasian railway was shot dead in the streets of Tiflis. Ottawa. March 3.. Lord Strathcona, on behalf of subscribers, presented Sir Charles Tupper, his predecessor in the Canadian High Commissionership, with his portrait. Sir C. Tupper, in responding advocated preference. Madrid, March 3. The King of Spain, yielding to the Bishops’ protest, abrogated the decree of August, which authorised civil marriage without a declaration of the contracting parties in regard to their religion. Brussels, March 3. The Kohigin Wilhelmina has been refloated. London, March 3. The Prince of Wales’, eldest son has passed his preliminary examination entitling him to enter the Royal College at Osborne. For the London County Council elections there was 262 candidates, including 118 Municipal Reformers, 13 Independents, 109 Progressives, 22 Socialists and Labourites. At the polls 509,099 Moderate and 360,301 Progressive votes were cast. Twenty-one Progressive ex-councillors were defeated. The Reformers obtained a decisive victory, returning 80 members, against 24 Progressives, 3 Labour and 1 Independent. Pretoria, March 3. Mr Louis Botha has rearranged his Cabinet. Mr Edward Solomon, President of the Nationalist party, becoming Minister of Works ; Mr Smuts, Colonial Secretary and Mines; Mr Rissick, Minister for Lands. Sir Richard Solomon declined to join the Ministry.

New York, March 3. The Lower House of California has passed a Bill virtually preventing aliens from holding landed property in California. Admittedly, the Bill aimed at the Japanese. Mrs Eddy’s son is proceeding against the trustees of Christian Science to secure a financial statement, because his mother, he alleges, is mentally and physically feeble. The Conference Committee at Washington deleted Senator Beveridge’s amendment to the Agricultural Bill, requiring packers to put the date of canning on all meat products.