CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7928, 8 October 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(By, Electric TelegrapK-CopyrigEt), • (Per Press Associatioa)3 "* ./,' '/'■"'■' :."J-ON'".ON, October 7. ihe RigLt Hon: H. (>. Arnold.Eorster. speamng. at ..the Cutlers'^ Company's least, warded the;'nation'that it would be unable to*prepare' for war without previous _ aedfice*_ ;«' You cannot," he s said, grille wiih war. , .'Every, farthing ■spent m training t_bo. . unfit;to'.-face and j j a forei£" '-"emy i. was t_d."; He added: "The army is ready to accept •the enforcement, of this test!" ■." \'i ; The" Government' has summoned a Conference of Boards of. Guardians to devisemeans to cope with distress. . Eqmnoxial- gales have caused losses to shipowners, and some fatalities have occurred on the British coast. *-:-... ■-. The tenders for the Exchequer bonds amounted to; twenty millions. The average price was £98 45,5 d. , - / At Lloya George's'instanoe, the Natmnal Co*a*vention of the Welsh educational authorities at Cardiff recommended thai -in the event of the Defaulting Authorities Act -being; enforoed in any area tho education authority should declare, its inability to fulfil the duties imposed by the Act of 1902. and take legal steps to relieve, themselves of the responsibility of the maintenance and control of public elementary schools. Eight recalcitrant Boera will return to the Transvall after makiDg a doclaration of allegianop.

_ CARTERTON, October 7. South Africa, generally welcomes the idea of a pau-Britarinio conference.

_. ; NEW YORK, Oct.-.?. Twenty thousand. Germans took' part in a procession at St. Louis in commemoration of tha landing of she Minnonites in 1683. The Ambassador, in addressing the demonstrators, conveyed the Kaiser's greetings and assurance of a warm interest in their welfare.