CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 5 October 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Ottawa, October 2. The Government of Ontario has declined to sell an American syndicate a million acres northwards ot the Hudson’s Bay watershed. The price offered was a million dollars, which was double the price charged to settlers. London, October 2. A record catch of twenty million herrings was made in the North Sea on October Ist. A hundred vessels are engaged unloading the fish at Grimsby. •An official inquiry has revealed the fact that the contractors made gross systematic overcharges for work done for the Mile-End Guardians, and that, moreover, repairs which had been scamped were passed by the surveyor. Tokio, October 3. Count Katsura, the Premier, in the course of an interview, said the visit to Japan of Hon. W. Taft, United States Secretary for War, was an indisputable demonstration of friendly relations between the two nations which nothing could shake. Pekin, October 2. China, yielding to a .protest made by merchants, has abolished the Kaisow Hkin station.

[A few days ago incendiaries at Wu-chow, as a protest against the establishment of a likin station, or Customhouse, at Kaisow, imposing extra taxation, set fire to houses, boats, and pontoons. One hundred lives were lost, and the damage to property was estimated at a quarter of a million dollars.] Viknna, October 2. Austria and Russia have instructed their representatives at Belgrade, Sofia, and Athens that neither Servia nor Greece shall obtain territorial advantage from the action of bands who are in the' habit of raiding Macedonia. It is intended to secure the extinction of these bands, and the Porte’s co-operation in securing reform will be asked for. This step is the outcome of King Edward’s recent visit to the Continent. Bklorabk, October 2. With but one exception, the newspapers in the capital indignantly denounce what they call the official murders of M. Novakovics, an anti-regicide editor, and an officer, also an anti-regicide, who were incarcerated without trial for some alleged minor offence. It is asserted that M. Novakovics and his companion were sandbagged in their cells, and, after an autopsy, burned b} ? the police. An excited mob assembled in the streets, shouting “ Down with King Peter ! Down with the conspirators !” The military was called out. and the crowd eventually overawed. fit was at first stated that the prisoners tried to attract the attention of the public by firing rifles, and then committed suicide. An autopsy on the bodies disclosed the fact that the men were murdered, and this aroused much popular indignation.] '