CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 1 October 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Svunkv, September 28. A cyclist named Silvana journeyed from Melbourne to Sydney in yshrs 37tnins, lowering the previous record by ihr 34inins. Singapore, September 28. Three Cuban generals have been arrested at Havana on suspicion of organising a revoluion with the connivance of New York capitalists. Teheran, September 28. Princes, Governors, and high officials at Teheran, the Persian capital, raised ,£400,000 to maintain a force sufficient to expel Turkish troops from Persian territory. Melbourne, September 29. The operative bakers have gone out on strike, and 300 have ceased work. [On the 23rd hist., it was reported that a meeting of the operative bakers had decided to give a week’s notice unless the wages fixed by the Wages Board are paid. This was considered unlikely to be conceded, and a general strike in the baking trade was then predicted.] Vienna, September 28.

The marriage of the Countess of Montiguoso (otherwise Princess Louise) is not recognised' as valid in Austria, Germany, and Italy. [The Princess, formerly the wife of the Crown King Frederick August lll.—of Saxony, was married last week at a Strand registry in London, to Signor Enrico TosselH, a professor of languages. Her former union with Prince Frederick, contracted in 1891, was dissolved in 1903. The Prince succeeded to the throne in 1904.] London, September 28, Harland and Wolff are to build a Hamburg-American liner larger than the Lusitania. Messrs John Brown and Co., of the Clydebank Works, will supply the engines. The Royal Mail Company’s steamer, of 12,500 tons, was launched at Messrs Harland and Wolff’s yards, Belfast. She sails for Australia in January.

[The White Star Company recently placed an order with Harland and Wolff for a steamer, 80ft long, or 50ft longer than the Lusitania.] London, September 28 The managing committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions in Great Britain, representing 700,000 members, which is already recognised by the employers, has expressed its heartiest sympathy with the demands of the railway men for recognition by the companies.

The by-election for the Kirkdale Division of Liverpool, rendered vacant through the death on September 7th of Mr Maclver, resulted as follows: — Mr Charles McArthur, Unionist 4000 Mr John Hill, Labour... 3330 - Unionist majority... 670 The executive of the Liberal party in the district was unable to officially support Mr Hill in any of his socialistic views ; but it passed a resolution expressing the hope that Liberal electors would support him. Paris, September 28.. Reports have reached here of serious losses by flood. In the districts of Beziers. Agde, and Lodeve, all in the department of the Herault, there has been great devastation. Hundreds of sheep are said to have been lost. Several fatalities are also reported. Berne, September 28. The Zeppelin airship circled around Lake Constance, German Switzerland. It manoeuvred perfectly against the wind. ; New York, September 28. The New York Herald states that out of 128 Congressmen and Senators consulted, only 27 favoured retaining the Phillipines. [A campaign was started in New York recently, headed by the Herald, in favour of the sale of the islands to Japan or any other Power willing to purchase. A prominent Japanese authority, Admiral Idjuin, interviewed at Paris, said Japan had her hands full in Korea and Manchuria, and would not interfere in any outside matters.]

Pekin, September 28. Owing to the establishment of a likin station or customhouse at Kaisow imposing extra taxation, incendiaries set fire to houses, boats, and pontoons, at Wu-chow, a Chinese treaty port on the SiKiang, in Kwang-si, 180 miles west of Canton. One hundred lives were lost, and the damage to property is estimated at a quarter of a million dollars, i A kerosene depot was also blow?? up, and looting is proceeding in the city. The river gunboat Robin is guarding the British Consulate.