CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 373, 16 April 1908, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Adeeaide, April 14. Coleman, who shot Constable Ring, was arrested near Morpethville. He made no resistance. The man has a small wound on the arm. He stated that he cut himself with glass, hoping to bleed to death. London, April 14. Mr A. G. Hales, war correspondent, proposes to contest Mr Winston Churchill’s seat, NorthWest Manchester, as a Labour, Tariff Reform, and Array Reform candidate, although Mr W. Joynson Hicks opposes Mr Churchill on behalf of the Unionists. Rome, April 14. As the result of interviews at Rome between the German Chancellor, Prince Bulow, and Signor Tittoni, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, a complete agreement has been established between Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hun-gary relative to Macedonia and other Balkan questions. Melbourne, April 14. The erection of the Federal small-arras factory at Lilhgow will be commenced at once. The estimated cost is ,£70,000. London, April 13. The murder of Count Potocki, Governor of Galicia, who was shot and killed at Lomberg by a Ruthene student, was entirely a political act. St. Petersburg, April 14. The Premier, M. Stolypin, urged the Duma to vote the money asked for by the Government, as Russia must be strong in the Far East, not only for fighting, but for the protection of the national civilising which is Russia’s historic mission. It was, added the Premier, impossible to double track the Man churian line, because China had a right of pre-emption and would certainly buy. Without the proposed Amur railway, it was impossible to develop forty million acres of corn lands and areas rich in auriferous wealth and the forests of the Amur region, or to prevent the influx of. aliens. The statement was received with enthusiastic cheers.