CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8190, 16 May 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). Per Press Association.) Received Mav 16, at 8.55 a.m. LONDON, May 15. The Departmental Committee on railway rates reports that no undue preference is accorded foreign and colonial produce as compared with home produce. The farmers of Great Britain should combine and co-operate to send produce in larger quantities, packed so as to give good loading in trucks. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has promised a Royal Commission to enquire into police methods in London and dealing with disorder in the streets at night. Tiie Commission is to take special cognisance of the aspersions cast on a French lady, who was illegally arrested.

The Plural Voting Bill has been read a second time.

Mr Arnold Foster's amendment insisting on the redistribution of seats as a pre-requisite to any changes in the franchise was negatived by 403 to 95.

The actuarial deficiency of the Great Northern Railway superannuation fund is half a million. . Received May 16, at 9.21 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, May 15. A bomb killed Police Captain Constavinoft: at Warsaw, severely wounding six soldiers. The assassin killed another soldier with a revolver. The soldiers attacked the bystanders, wounding eleven and killing three. The terrorists have been hunting CoustavinofE since May, 1905, when he ordered the soldiers to fire on a Socialist procession, killing thirty. A number of St. Petersburg workmen stopped and maltreated Father John ot Kronstadt. PARIS. May 15. The Temps says the limitations of armaments is impossible in view of Germany's warlike preparations. Received May 16, at 9.42 a.m. PEKIN, May 15. The Chinese Government has explained that the Customs edict is intended to simplify administration, and not to supersede Sir Robert Hart's establishment. Foreigners, nevertheless, fear the reorganisation is designed to interfere with the interests of the Powers. LONDON. May 15. The selection committee has appointed Lieut.-Colonel H. J. Foster, of the Royal Engineers, late military attache at Washington, to be Director of Military Science at Sydney University. It is considered to be an excellent appointment, owing to his exceptional literary, scientific, and strategic qualifications. The War Office hesitate to part with so valuable an officer.