CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 16 November 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Nmv York, Nov. 14. Although twenty million dollars’ worth of gold has reached New York from abroad, the currency stringency is still acute. Premiums have advanced 2>V\ P er cent. The mint has delivered a million freshly-coined double-eagles. The Treasury announces that it will coin fifty-two million dollars durthe next three months. Owing to monetary stringency, 10,000 cotton operatives in the New England States have been rendered workless. Bombay, November 14. The prominent Hindoos of the Punjab have opened a subscription to indemnify the Christian missions at Rawal Pandi, ravaged during the April riots. Berlin, November 14. Doctor Paasche, Vice-President of the Reichstag, in a speech at Kreuznach, claimed that the side possessing superior rapidity of fire was able to strike a decisive blow in naval warfare. This frequentl.v determined the issue. In this repect the Germans were twice as good as the English. Sydney, November 15. As a protest against dear food and the speculator reaping enhanced profits, the Eabour Council resolved to ask the Government to legislate to stop the wholesale export of food supplies. Out of a flock of 2000 sheep at Walgett over 500 died alter eating thistles.

Herr Hettner, a National Liberal, when addressing the Saxon Diet, described the newspaper reports of the proceedings as frequently nonsensical and untrue. Thereupon all the reporters withdrew, and informed the President that they would not resume until Herr Hettner had apologised in the House. Paris, Nov. 14. A new ethergraph enabled the French cruiser Republiqtie, at Golfe de Giens (an inlet near the naval station of Toulon), to easily communicate with warships 470 miles away; also with the Eiffel Tower, Paris. London, November 14. Lord Elgin’s despatch to the Governors, dated September 21st, describing the reorganisation of the Colonial Office in accordance with the promises of the Colonial Conference, has been published. Mr Richard Jebb, in a paper read at the Colonial Institute on Twelve Months of Imperial Evolution,” argued that the forces making for Imperial alliance between the Colonies and the Motherland were overwhelmingly stronger thanjchosi in favour of Imperial sovereignty. Addressing the agents of the National Union of the Conservative Associations on the eve of the Birmingham Conference, Sir A. Acland Hood, in a fighting speech, declared the real remedy for the distress of the unemployed was a better market for Horae products in the colonies, and the power to make terras with foreigners. Paris, November 14.

After a two days’ debate, the Chamber of Deputies, by 462 to 54, expressed its confidence in the Government’s efforts to secure the rights of France in Morocco. The Tribune saj's that owing to the House of Cords’ decision regarding liability for income tax, the De Beers Company has resolved to transfer the control of the company to Kimberley.