GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 7 March 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

New York, March 5

President Roosevelt has appealed to Americans to support the Russian famine relief fund, declaring Russia in the past has been a good friend to the United States. London, March 5.

The Commons will give a luncheon to the Colonial delegates to the Imperial Conference in Westminster Hall on April 24th. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman • will preside. Rayner was committed for trial for the murder of Whiteley. The Vickers-Maxim Co. is building a Dreadnought for Brazil. Cairo, March 5.

At the instance of Gussef, editor of the newspaper Moazyaa, a Nationalist journal in Cairo supposed to be backed by the Khedive, the General Assembly passed a resolution demanding the early granting of full parliamentary institutions and other wide-reaching concessions in Egypt. London, March 5.

The Empress Dowager of Russia arrives in England on Thursday on a visit to the Queen. The missing captain and seven men of the German steamer which sank on the Goodwins, rowed to Dover.

Cairo, March 5

The revenue of Egypt during the past year was 15,337. 000 Egytian pounds, showing a surplus of 2,175,000 Egyptian pounds. [An Egyptian pound is worth os 3W sterling. In 1905 the revenue was 14,813,346 Egyptian pounds, and in 1904 ,£13.69°.560.] Pretoria, March 5.

Mr H. C. Hull, the Transvaal Treasurer, declared that every Minister realised that the mining industry was the basis of the Transvaal’s prosperity. London, March 5.

The Times’ Pretoria correspondent says the four Boer representatives are the strongest men in the party. Evidently they are determined not to begin making enemies, judging by their utterances. The Press and people of the Transvaal are ready to give the new Government a fair start in a friendly and sympathetic spirit.