CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 24

CABLEGRAMS.

I* BRITISH AND FOREIGN. I: " LONDON, August 24. sk A number of detectives were watching |the N suspicious conduct of some of the now charged in connection with &h» robbery at Mappin and Webb's, and Hater saw them emerge from the building. m The value of the jewels was between p30,000 and £40,000. %~ •"Archdeacon Wright was consecrated p£jrchbishop of Sydney by - the. Arcbishop pf Canterbury, assisted .by the Bishops of iSalisbuTy and Manchester and others, in ||he presence of a large congregation at ■St. Paul's Cathedral. §| Guy Aldred, a printer, of London, and Eft self-described Anarchist, has recompnenced tbs publication of the Indian mociologift. A leading article, writte-n Apparently by Krishnavarma, extols DhinK?a as a martyr. §y August 25. jvJapan has retroceded to China the Bhien&as territory. King Edward has I greatly benefited by bu course of mineral bathe atMurienbad. j The War Office has issued regulations j lor the organisation and administration of Dadet corps. t Mr Winston Churchill. President of the pßoard of Trade, has informed Mr TaverUper, Agent-general for Victoria, that he arras doubtful whether any administrative nneaeure existed whereby tl*ey could preprent the importation of loaded leather. Be suggested that the Victorian tanners ■bake united action to bring the excellence ml their leather before the public. p Lord E. H. J. Cornwallis Eliot, eldest Bon of tiie fifth Earl of St. Germans, com- , nutted suicide during a fit of temporary i insanity at Earl St. Germans'^ seat, near , Plymouth. The deceased shot himself irith a gun. j The consecration of Arohdeacon Wright pesfcerday was the first in St? Paul's \o an archbishopric since the Reformation. Bhe archbishop then consecrated was nmon Islip, in 1349, in the building since mown as Old St. Paul's, which was deijtooyed in the great fire o£ London, in juhajle* H's. feign.- ■ ~. ... " W George Thompson, an American) Has Been sentenced to six months' imprison^ m«nt on a charge of stealing £100 from Kfr William Strong, an Australian mer.-, Ehast, by means of the confidence trick. , i August 26. ;, 6 The jewellery which was stolen from iMessrs Mappin and Webb's warehouse ■find, which was recovered by the police, Ms valued at £44,000. W- The Times' New 1 York correspondent ■Pgorts a general- trade revival in" tie ,

United States.' me postal receipts show that business has improved in every part of the country ' Mr Harriman'* continued ill-health and the reports of his intended retirement have caused a general decline in the stocks of bis railways, and the market is unsettled. General Sir George Higginson. in the pi'esence of a large gathering at Marlow, j unfurled the Empire flags from the first Overseas League flagstaff erected in the I United Kingdom. Tha flags included the Commonwealth, West Australian, and New Zealand flags. \ August 27. * Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria I have embarked at Dundee en route for Norway. The five divisions of the Methodist Church will be represented at the Methodist Assembly in London in October. The j total number of delegates is 500, and the proportional numbers are as follow : — Wesleyans, 2-76; Primitive Methodists, 112; United Methodists, ' 100;' Reform Union, 6; and Independent Methodists, 6. - Mr H. Gladstone (Home Secretary) informed a deputation from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain tha* the 60hours olause was not inserted in the Eight Hours Act merely to increase the number , of working hours per day, but to help j matters in times of pressure. He intended ' to administer the act in the same spirit as it was passed, and lie would investi- 1 gate all disputes submitted to him. If he found that the object of the act was infringed he would put matters right. August 29. A supposed spy, while taking sketches, was arrested within the inner batteries of i ( the Leenan Fort, which is the strongest in I the .North of Ireland. j Lord Kitchener, in a circular, emphai sises the great improvement in the health I of the Indian army during the past few J •yeaTs. He mentions that the death rate .of Britbh troops since 1894 had fallen ! from 17.3 to 9 per thousand. j : The Times' Simla correspondent reports that the widespread rain during the past two days has assured the crops in India. The outlook generally is exceptionally good. V-Heaton attempted to cross the Channel, but abandoned it within a mile- of the French coast after being in the water 17 hours. . August 30. '. Reuter's Teheran correspondent states that a decree has been issued restricting the sale of opium with a view to the ultimate suppression of opium-smoking, which the proclamation declares is responsible for Persia' 6 backward condition. ' A powerful salvage steamer, with gear, , has left Hull to recover the salvage por- '

tion of £150,000 worth of property, consisting of 26 Hull eteam trawlers, which have been stranded on the Iceland coasts during the past decade. Owing to water from a disused shaft flooding the Dombrovo mine, near Sosnowice (Poland), 26 people were drowned. PARIS, August 25. A gathering of 100,000 people on tl» Rheims aviation ground accorded an ovation to President Fallieres, who received General French and the other British representatives, and affably conversed with them, amid cheers, upon the entente. August 29. Dr Doyan, of Paris, successfully transplanted a live sheep's vein into the leg of a patient suffering from arterial aneurism, the circulation being restored. This is the first instance in which the organism .jf a lower animal has been transferred to man. ROTTERDAM, August 26. Five deaths from Asiatic cholera have occurred in Rotterdam, and 28 persons are isolated under observation. BERLIN, August 23. . In connection with the incident cabled on the 12th met., a bullet fired by the Russian Guards passed through the Ger- [ man balloon, the damage being inflicted while the balloon was still over German territory. I The facts have been forwarded to the German Foreign Office. GENEVA, August 24. An explosion at tlie gasworks at Geneva killed seven people and injured i one. Tha gasometer was demolished, and great damage was done in the vicinity. : Every window within a radius of two 1 miles was smashed, and the fragments of glaes injured 60 people in the street. ROME, August 25. An earthquake visited the Siena, district (Italy). A few persons were killed, many injured, and several houses and convents collapsed. ST. PETERSBURG, August 25 Tolstoy's secretary (Goosef) has been banished for distributing Tolstoy's books in Russia, on the ground that they are revolutionary. " NEW YORK. August 24. Mr Taft denies that he has ordered a reduction in the number of the army. Tha difficulty, he says, is to obtain sufficient recruits to keep 80,000 men with the colours. August 25. The State of Honduras is seeking to float a two-million loan in this city, for the purpose of refunding the foreign debt. Professor Edgar Hewitt has discovered in North-east Arizona a series of caves

much larger in extent than the celebrated Kentucky caves, also mills and relics of household articles, the supposed remains of a race unknown to archaeologists. August 26. The Legislature of the State of Alabama has approved the- income tax amendment to the Constitution. Some of the State Legislatures will not meet till the winter of 1910. OTTAWA, August 26. Mr Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway (Canada), speaking at a luncheon said that by 1915 the United States would cease to be grain exporters. Forty thousand residents of Winnipeg gave an enthusiastic welcome to Lord I Stratheona, who is revisiting the town for the first time in 13 years. August 27. It is rumoured in this city that the British Government contemplates offering ■ Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister, the ! Governor-Generalship of JDniflEd" South . Africa. Sir Wilfrid declines to discuss the subject j CAPETOWN, August 26. ' The British firm of Depass and Sperfce, j Capetown, received in 1886 a perpetual title to the area known as Luderitzbucht, now witliin the diamond district. The Germain authorities, however, have granted ' the right to peg off claims within the same area to a German subject. The British Foreign Office is now intervening.