CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 2 May 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

London, April 30. Mr Trevisa Clarke saw Mr Bent and spoke hopefully of the mail syndicate’s prospects. Negotiations are suspended pending are ply to a telegram sent to Australia. Major - General Sir Edmund Roche Elies, military member of the Governor-General’s Council in India, and Captain Cottley, Director of Naval Intelligence, have been appointed military and naval experts at the Hague Convention. Sir Edward Fry, one of the British delegates to the Peace Conference, has been created a Knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael. Mr Chamberlain is progressing steadily, though his knee still causes a slight limp. Otherwise he is in good health. He walks with two sticks for short distances. The King and Queen of Denmark visit King Edward from June Bth to the 13th. The Lord Chamberlain has withdrawn the license of the opera “Mikado” in the provinces and London. This is assumed to be due to Prince Fushimi’s visit and the Japanese alliance. Reuter’s Uskub correspondent reports that the Consul-General at Salonica stated that ,£13,500 was demanded as ransom for Mr Abbot, the son of an American, who was kidnapped by brigands. The Turkish authorities refused to pay the money. The Europeans at Salonica are indignant at the refusal to pay the money.