General Cable News.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 14, 15 November 1904, Page 2

General Cable News.

LONDON, Monday. A Conservative Victory. The by-election for the Horsham Division of Sussex resulted in a victory for Viscount Tumour, a Conservative and a tariff reformer, Chamberlain and Balfour telegraphed congratulations to him. The figures were: Tumour 4,388, Erskine 3,004. Rebuking a Bishop. The German Kaiser’s rebuke of Father Benzler, Bishop of Metz, is almost the sole topic in Germany. The Kaiser in the course of his address to the Bishop, said “ Two-thirds of my subjects are Protestants. I have done everything in my power to fulfil the desires of my Catholic subjects without heeding the dissatisfaction of men of my own faith, and with the single idea of enabling all to co-operate in unity and mutual esteem. See to it that I do not arrive at the conclusion that my efforts and sacrifices are in vain. If my attempts at conciliation fail, through the intolerance and presumptuousness of Catholics, the wind may possibly blow from another quartet. Serve God to the best of your knowledge, but do not forget you must also servo your country and King, and although the King rales with a gentle hand, that hand may in a moment be turned into the mailed fist.” Increasing the Navy. __ Morton, Secretary of the United States Navy, has asked Congress to vote money for 20,870 officers and 62,368 men, thus doubling the existing personnel of the navy. , The Anglo-French Convention Ratified. The Chamber of Deputies at Paris has ratified the Anglo-French Convention, voting as follows For, 443: against. 105.