CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3782, 18 January 1908, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

London, January x 6. Latest advice from Morocco state that Muli Hofed, lately proclaimed Sultan at Fez, is at Marakesh, preaching a holy war. The Sultan Abdul Aziz has advised Europeans at Rabat to keep together, and he has placed guards over their residences. Halifax, January 16. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has upheld a decision given in fayour of the Dominion Iron and Steel .Company’s claim for damages amounting to three millions sterling, owing to a breach of contract by the Dominion Coal Company in connection with the supply of coal. London, January 16. Lord Brassey, Liberal Peer, and a writer on naval and economic questions, has been appointed Warden of the Cinque Ports. Owing to the collapse of the diamond market, the result of the financial stringency in America, the Premier Company (the great diamond-mining concern in the Transvaal) has postponed payment of a dividend on its deferred shares. The Company expresses the belief that the depression of the market is only transitory. Madrid, January 16. Thousands of men have been rendered idle at the Rio Tinto Copper Mines, in Andalusia, through a subsidence. The substitution of stone pillars for the props formerly used to support the* ground above the working caused cracks a yard wide, and a subsidence, which led to the collapse of many houses in the course of construction, i