CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3774, 17 September 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Morocco, September 14

Chammahi tribesmen sent emissaries to General Drude, who commands the French troops in Morocco, offering submission. General Drude stipulates that the emissaries must be accompanied bv representatives of the Sukalia tribe, who has attacked the French.

Tangier, September 14 v RaisuU has returned Kaid Sir Harry McLean’s tent and other private effects. Sydney, September 15. The steamer Tomki is a total wreck on the Richmond bar (on the north New South Wales coast). • The passengers and crew had a perilous experience. They landed by means of a lifeline, placed aboard by a rocket brigade. [The steamer Tomki, 590 tons, belonging to the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, was built by R. and H. Green, London, in 1882.] Capetown, September 14. Owing to unrest in Zululand, officers commanding militia have been privately warned to hold themselves in readiness to take the field at a moment’s notice.

[lt is but a few days since an attempt was made by a party of natives at Nkandla to murder a sergeant of police. When the plot failed, the natives sought refuge in the bush. An unsuccessful attempt was also made to rob a mail runner.] Paris, September 15.

Despite loud demand on the part of the public that he should allow the law to take its course, President Fallieres, consistent with his principle not to sanction capital punishment, has commuted the death sentence passed on the Parisian murderer, Sollieland. [ln February last Sollieland, a workman of Paris, was allowed to take a neighbour’s child. Martha Erbelding, aged 12 years, to an entertainment, saying that his wife was accompanying him. He outraged, strangled, and stabbed the child to the heart, and left the remains in the parcels office at the railway station. Eater he confessed the crime.] ______