CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 9 November 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

London, November 7. There are 6956 scarlet fever patients in the London hospitals, a record number. Socialists were defeated in 31 municipalities. The Unionists gained from one to six seats in / fifty seven boroughs who returned / Liberals or Socialists to Parliament. Ruthenburg, a Russian revolutionist, who trapped Father Gapon into avowing that he was a Government agent, thereby bringing about his murder, is reported to be living in Australia. A man named Woolterton, formerly butler to Sir C. F. CoryWright, a justice of the peace, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude at the Herts Assizes, on a charge of entering Sir C. F. CoryWright’s bedroom and brandishing a revolver, demanding ,£IO,OOO or the owner’s life. Woolterton accepted ;£io, and them made an appointment to receive more. He was arrested at the rendezvous. Sydney, November. The weather is very cold, and many sheep have been killed by it in the Orange district. Paris, November 7, ) The newspaper “ Petit Pari""Ysien’s ” referendum relative to the /suspension of capital punishment elicited 1,412,000 protests against the President’s too frequent exercise of the prerogative of pardon. Only 328,000 supported this action. Berlin, November 6. The trial of Adolph Brand, an eccentric political pamphleteer, on a charge of accusing Prince Von Bulow, the German Chancellor, of infamous practices, has commenced, and is arousing extraordinary interest. Brand withdrew his insinuations against Prince Bulow, and threw himself on the mercj r of the Court which sentenced him to eighteen months’ imprisonment. [The Brand charges have been regarded as a sort of counter-blast to those brought against Prince Eulenburg and Count Moltke. They were first heard of early in October.