GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 428, 25 August 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

XfiMA, Saturday.

Senor August© B. Leguia, late Premier, has been appointed President of Peru. Ottawa, Saturday. Ideal harvesting weather prevails in South Manitoba for threshing operations, and the general quality of the wheat crop is excellent. San Francisco, Saturday. Forest fires are sweeping along the Yosemite Valley, and threaten the giant redwoods. London, Saturday. Mr Rolleston, the newly appointed New Zealand Trade Commissioner, sailed by the Athenic. He visited Chambers of Commerce and Manufactures in London and the provinces, was well received everywhere, and afforded the fullest information. London, Saturday. What is. designated ‘‘ The True Temperance Association ’ ’ has been started. It aims at a large scale of reform in regard to publichouses. Mr A. J. Balfour and Mr Austen Chamberlain support the new movement. Port Darwin, Saturday. Messrs Dutton, Aiiuger. and Allchurch have arrived from Adelaide by motor car. Both men and machine are in excellent condition after the long, hazardous journey across Australia. The journey was accomplished on one set of tyres. The party had some trying experiences among the sandhills. They had a second car, which was railed from Pine Creek. It, too, stoood the journey excellently, though exposed seven months to a tropical sun and rain. Sydney, Saturday. Obituary—W. P. Crick, exMinister for Lands, died suddenly from hemorrhage. He attended the races yesterday. Paris, Saturday. General Piquart, French Minister for War, travelled in a steerable balloon, the “ Excelsior,” from St. Cloud to Rouen. London, Saturday. The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, and Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign affairs), have had prolonged interviews with Sir Charles Hardinge (Permanent Undersecretary to the Foreign Office) since the latter’s return from Germany.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. D. Dloyd-George, has reached Berlin. His secretary, when interviewed there, asserted that his chief was engaged in no political mission, and no proposals were to be made ; but the visit might nevertheless be not without some political significance.