CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 1 August 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

London, July 30,

The new Cunard liner Lusitania, in her steam trial, made 25 3-sth knots..

Reuter reports that fifteen soldiers at Ecuador, were court-mar-tialled on a charge of participating in a political plot against President Alfaro.

The financial papers attribute the weakness in consols to the absence of a demand for low in-terest-bearing securities. They declare the public are beginning to realise the true value of consols as an investment, and are no longer willing to take them unless they show a reasonable yield. The Elgin commission, appointed to enquire into the Scottish Churches dispute, estimated the United Free Church funds at and allotted ,£310,000 to the “ Wee Frees,” besides what was awarded before. It is estimated the United Free Church lost altogether half a million. The opinion is expressed in Scotland that the Commissioners were lavishly generous to the “Wee Frees.”

The Tiipes regards the prospects of a permanent International Prize Court of Appeal at The Hague and the American proposals for the establishmant of a permanent Court of Arbitration as most promising.

The Rev. R. J. Campbell has been invited to stand for the Cardiff seat in the Socialist interest. Speaking at Tredegear he declared the first great commandment was to get hold of the land. Five hundred Belfast dockers and a thousand carters have struck for higher wages. Non-unionists from Liverpool replaced the dockers. Owing to the unrest and intimidation, the Belfast troops are assisting in preserving order. The discontented police have temporarily resumed, though their leaders threaten to call out ninetyfive per cent, unless their grievances are redressed. Berlin, July 30. Word has been received that the Mahommedan natives of Adamwa, in the Cameroons, attacked a German residency at Garua. The raiders were repulsed. Tokio, July 30. Viscount Hayashi declines to consider a new treaty with the United States based on the exclusion of Japanese labourers. St. Petersburg, July 30.

The Grand Duke Nicholas has warned General Nikiforoff, who tries the revolutionaries charged with attempting to murder the Czar, himself and M. Stolypin, that death is the only punishment suitable for crimes against the Imperial family.