CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7923, 1 October 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(Per Press Association) t {Hyy Electric Telegra(ph— Copyright). ■;,.'■ _NEW Y°RK, September 30. Mr Wallace, chief engineer of the Ame_icßn-Pan_ma Canal Commission, oiaims to have solved the problem of diverting tho Chancre river towards the Pacific, thus permitting the canal to be constructed od the sea level. The cost of the diversion he estimates will ba three million sterling

'■...:■ LONDON, Sept. 30. -Bntasn demands the Sultan of Mo-I rocco to purrender the confiscated pro. perty of Elmenebhi, ex-Mmister for War. who claims protection aa a British subject.

Tne A.sooiated Chambers of Commerce Conference at Manchester unanii mously resolved that the Board of Trade* shipping regulatitms ought to be enJ forced.m regard to foroign equally as h_ tbe case of Briiisb ships. | Mr John Redmond, sDe.king a. Ottawa, declared that Irish industries'! wanted protection, notagainst Germany, but Bnt sh productions. The Irish party, he declared, would settle the tariff question, as British freetraders and protectionists were equ.liy divided. The opportunity must be used wisely so asj not to drive the British into united?.opposition to the Irish demands. --■ \ BUDA PESTH. September 30. lhe Huneanan notables urge the Minister for War to summon a Court of Honor to try Prince Philip of Coburg!, on a charge of brutality to his wife

. SYDNEY, Sept. 30. Mr Oarruthers promised a deputation to tackle the local Government question next session on the basis of tbe unimproved land values. The Government would either carry out reform or others would take their places. MELBOURNE, September 30 The censure debate has been adjourned to Tuesday. Mr Watson expects it to last the greater part of the week.

OTTAWA, September 30. Tbe Dominion Parliament has dissolved, and the elections are fixed for November 3.