CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 22 October 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

THE CANADIAN NORTHWEST. Ottawa, October xB. Mr Rudyarcl Kipling, speaking at Toronto, declared the need of the Canadian West was labour. He advocated the dumping in of emigrants from the Motherland. THE NEWCASTLE “CREEP.” Sydney, October 19. It is thought probable that the Newcastle “creep” will continue for some time, and that it may move towards the city. Experts take a favourable view of the situation. They consider the estimate of damage has been exaggerated. Newcastle, October 20. There is no further development of the “creep ” to report. BUSH FIRES IN QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, October 19. Immense bush fires are sweeping the country of the Charleville and Barcaldine districts. THE KOREAN CROWN PRINCE. Seoul, October 19. The Korean Crown Prince is going to Japan as a student. THE SITUATION IN MOROCCO. Paris, October 18. France has decided to support Abdul Aziz in Morocco. THE TRANSVAAL SEAL- . London, October 19. A soldier obtained the late President Kruger’s great seal of the South African Republic from a Boer who was about to bury it. The seal was to have been offered at auction here to-day, but the Colonial Office has taken it as Crown property, as a result of the annexation of the Republic. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. London, 18. The Danish steamer Alfred Erlandsen, from Libau, Russia, was lost, with twenty hands, at Saint Abb’s Head, Berwickshire. [The Alfred Erlandsen was a steel screw steamer of 954 tons, built at Flensburg, a Baltic seaport, in 1890, and owned by Schach. Steenberg and Co., of Copenhagen. Her principal dimensions were :—Length, 207.6 ft ; breadth, 31.2 ft; depth, 14.1 ft. Captain J. Larsen was in command of the vessel. St Abb’s Head, where the .steamer met her fate, is a rockey promontory, 31ft in height, on the Berwickshire coast, four miles N.N.W. of Eyemouth, and is the site of a lighthouse erected in 1861.] THK SHIP ALFHILD. Hobart, October 19. A relief steamer expects to get in touch to-day with the missing members, ot the Swedish ship Althild, wrecked on the south coast of Tasmania on Thursday morning of last week. [The Alfbild struck on Green Island, and most of the crew got ashore on to a rockey coast. Six men reached Maatsuyker lighthouse in a boat, and reported that seven men were left in a precarious condition where they had landed, being without food.] A TERRIBLE DEATH FROM STARVATION. Hobart, October 20. Tne relief steamer found the bodies of the two missing members of the Allhild’s crew near the place where the survivors left them. They had evidently starved to death. No deatails are to hand, nor any mention of the other men who where missing. GRAVE DESECRATION. Pretoria, October 19. A painful sensation has been caused in every section in Pretoria by desecration of the grave of the late President Kruger. A bust was wrenched from its base, and was lying a yard away from its proper position. The tombstone *of a grandchild of Mr Kruger’s in the same plot, was slightly damaged, the statuette of an angel at the head of the grave being overturned. It is believed an attempt was made to steel the bust, with the object of awaiting a reward for its recovery, and that the bust proved to be heavier than anticipated.