CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 386, 16 May 1908, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Hobart, May 14. The English Rugby team for New Zealand, who are passengers by the Athenic, were welcomed by the local Association. New York, May 14. Lamphere, the man employed at Mrs Guinness’s farm frequently purchased chloral. He declares that Mrs Guinness in 1907 proposed that he should marry her after insuring his life. The marriage was postponed. There is great excitement in Norway owing to the identified victims including Andrew Heldgren, a Norwegian. Mrs Guinness made a will the day before the fire bequeathing £4500 sterling to a Norwegian 01 plumage. Lamphere’s counsel declares the initials on the rings found with the tooth suggest that possibly they belonged to the first Mrs Guinness. It is intended to prove later that she was lured to the farm and incinerated with her three children. Seven children weie entrusted to Mrs Guinness, who was a baby farmer. Cardinal Logue, interviewed at New York, said that he saw signs of Great Britain’s certain dissolution in the resliveness of the colonies. “ Australia to-day is practically independent and the trend of every movement is more and more in the direction of absolute rebellion,” he added. “ New Zealand is indifferent, Canada is legislating in a manner showing a desire to conduct its business in its own way ; the fires of rebellion are lighted in India, and men atid women are hanged lor daring to advocate the doctrine of never-dying freedom. When England sits alone, as the result of misgovernment, it will be a day of reckoning for the. children of Ireland.” '

New York, May 14. President Roosevelt is surprised and somewhat annoyed at Germany’s refusal to negotiate an arbitration treaty similar to those concluded between America and Britain and other countries. Sydxey, May 14. The Burrwood Colliery has again had to suspend operations. A number of the wheelers were lately fined for striking. Some elected to go to prison. The others refuse to work until mates are realeased.'