GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 848, 4 June 1910, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON. J inn l 2. Mii-vs Ailn ( 'mssloy sang Handel's Fargo at Sir George Reid's reception. Other AiM raliaii sin grin par t icipa ted. Tlio nrliit rat ion case over tin* Newfoundland fisheries opens at the Hague on Monday. The Court will be comprised of Professor Lammasch (president), Dr. Drago (Argentine). Dr, Rosnianu (Netherlands}. Judge Gray (Uniled Stales), and Judge Fitzpatrick (Canada). The- lirsl annual report ol (lie Dominion department of I lie Colonial Office lias been issued. It gives a survey of |hi* year's doings in the Dominion. The Commercial Union Company has absorbed the ()cean Accident Gua ran tec (’oinpanv. LOME. Juno 2. Fight hundred people were poisoned in the Kavelina, district through eating ire cream made of rotten eggs. Nine are dead and seventy aiv in a very serious coudit ion. ST. PETERSBURG. June 2. KudasheiV, a Cossack girl, rode from Klutrbin to St. Petersburg astride a Mongolian pony. Her only companion was a St. Bernaul dog. LONDON, June 2. Sir \V. Mat her. in unveiling Mr Kruce Joy’s marble bust of King Edward at Manchester University, suggested that a chair of international law ami arbitration should be established in every university, lie hoped Manchester would take the’lead in perpetuating the spirit of King Edward. this Peacemaker. A Renter's telegram from Paris says: “'The hope is firmly entertained here that the result of the conference between the British Chamber of Commerce, Mr Dean, Minister of Agriculture for Natal, and Mr Harrison, commerce agent, will be that, a commercial arrangement between France and South Africa will be entered into in the near future." A party of Scotch agriculturists is to visit Australia, including Sir Carlaw Martin, Sir John Sinclair, Dr. Shicrka Uibh. Messrs H. B. Creig, Barber. Pram, Dunlop, Morrison, and Henderson. Fourteen people were drowned in the wreck of the barque Swanhilda oil’Tierra Del Fnego. Silver is quoted at 243 d. CAPETOWN, Juno 2. The Union Government has accepted Mr Sollv Joel's gift of Barnato Park, of IU acres in extent, with a building to be hereafter used as a girls school. BERLIN, June 2.

The King of the Belgians' visit lias concluded. The Kaiser was unable to be present at the State banquet and other functions, and the Crown Prince was deputed to lake his place. The latter was the recipient of extraordinary popular demonstrations in Berlin. Tlie Kaiser has ordered volunteers serving for a year at their own expense lu forego comforts in hotels and board-ing-houses and live in the barracks, the same as ordinary soldiers. BARIS. June 2.

'l’ll.' heavy seas having abated in tin; cliannol one of Iho TluvioseY hatches lias boon found to bo lialf open, from «liioh it is inferred that the sailors tried to osoapo. ST. f’KTKHSHIUC., Juno 2. A peasant girl of seventeen at Y’akliarova, near Tomsk, in Siberia, annoyed at her uneloV taunting her with flight i',I,„S killed her 12-vear-ohl brother w till an axe, broke her mother's spine and out oil' her a t ms and grievously wounded her ancle. She was finally arrested while oueaged in an assault on her aunt. ° ° HO.Nt: KOXti. June 2.

Revolutionaries at Shanghai anotiymou'lv warned the I'oreigu Legations that in extensiv ■ ault-Muiichu rising was iiniuinont. They added that foreigners would not be harmed unless the Legations assist the reigning dynasty, and if they do thev will be massacred. BERLIN, June 2. The Seventh Baden Infantry at ilulheiin were so severely exercised on the drill ground that fifty men became exhausted. Two died and eight had to be sent to the hospital. CANUI A, June 2.

Tin* Cretan Executive C ommittee has iiddrermd ;i note tv the i'owere declurmy that (.’vote cannot live tsiihoui the Greek in>( itnt ion. ami requesting the Powers lu briny about the only solution by promoting the union of C rete am, Greece. OlUcial opinion at Petris is that the lieu claim imposes on the Powers the necessity of considering the situation courageously ttith a vi«w to definite solution.