GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 19 March 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

London, March 15

General Botha, Premier of South Africa, will receive the freedom of the City of London, with the other visiting colonial Premiers.

Mr Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, has fixed the rate for cab fares in London, to be calculated on the distance recorded by a taximeter on each vehicle, at 8d per mile. Four hundred instruments are now ready for use. Sydney, March 17. C. Healy annexed the East Sydney Club’s hundred yards swimming championship in 57 4-s sec . an Australian record. New York, March 16. President Roosevelt has signed an order preventing the entry of Japanese labourers into the United States by way of Canada, Mexico, or Hawaii by means of passports which are only valid in those countries. Belgrade, March 16. As the police of Belgrade were escorting to the sugar, leather, and boot factories two hundred nonunion hands from Kragujevatz, unionist strikers interfered. The police fired, and killed five strikers and wounded twenty others. Berlin, March 16. A mining disaster is reported from Kleinrosseln, in Alsace. An explosion of fire-damp occurred in a colliery, by which 65 miners were killed, and twelve injured. The Chancellor, Prince von Bulow, speaking at a banquet at Berlin, promised to amend the Bourse law, to reform the right of association and public meeting, also to continue to protect the agricultural industry. St Petersburg, March 16. Owing to the yielding of beams supporting a new ventilating apparatus, the ceiling of the hall wherien the Duma meets collapsed early last Friday, covering 200 seats with debris.

The moderation shown by the new Duma has enabled the Premier (M. Stolypm) to checkmate those who are trying to secure its dissolution.

There have been 765 executions in Russia since the dissolution of :he first Duma.

Pietermaritzburg, March 16,

The Kandhla correspondent of the Natal Mercury declares that Bambaata, a native chief who took part in the native rising last year, and was reported to have been in a fight on June 10th, when the rebels were defeated with heavy loss, is alive. It is reported that he has been living in the Fongosi valley, and recently visited Basutoland.