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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42773, 2 September 1905, Page 3

Latest Cablegrams.

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. : Capetown, Yesterday. A deputation of Het Yolk called Lord Selborne’s attention to the danger and uneasiness caused bj wandering Chinese. Lord Selbome replied that the vast majority of Chinese were orderly, but granted permits to all whites near Witwatersrand to possess any arms except magazine rifles. St Petersburg Yesterday.

A peasant agitator, named Findhand, has appeared in Saratov and Sarator districts. Cossacks and infantry havo be m Bent. Peasants in "Warsaw district have raided the prison and murdered eleven thieves, wounding 60. The remainder appealed to the thieves of Warsaw for protection. The latter fired several villages, London, Yesterday. The Japanese report a series of minor engagements. On the 27th they repnised three Russian attacks in Rsingching district; The Japanese made three attacka on Faolu, capturing the position. * , Renter’s state that there is no secret clause in the peace treaty. . Berlin, Yesterday. . There is an outbreak of cholera in Eastern Germany, with already six deaths. Pekin, Yesterday. Local merchants and junk owners .have organised a coolie attack on the ■.Customs at Amoy, owing to disaflee tioD of duties. The harbour office was looted, and the Iphigenia landed a force to help the authorities. The latter shot five natives, and many were arrested. ! -i Rome, Yes’erday. A fire is raging at Genoa. A shipbuilding jard, two Lloyd-Italian navigation steamers and a building are ablaze. : | ‘t-,S Park, Yesterday, Two officials of the French Congo have been sentenced to five years for Cruelty to natives. Berlin, Yesterday. Cholera is spreading to West Prussia and Galica, St Petersburg, Yesterday. A strikehas paralysed railway traffic. At Libau the Tartars left pile < of dead and wounded in thp Shusha streets. New Y6rk Yesterday. Mr Baldwin ascended in a Balloon at Green vill», Ohio, carrying dynamite for a spectacle : the dynamite prematurely exploded, and he was blown to atoms in the presence of 15,000 spectators. London, Yesterday., The London and Cromer express was wrecked at Wiltham near Colchester; ten were killed and 200 injured. London, August 31. At Bourmemouth, Australians are playing an England eleven captained by Grace. The weather is fine and wicket soft. The home team won the toss, went in and lost 5 wickets for 155. Grace only scored a couple of runs. Fishwick 43, Braund 47, Arnold not out 30, are the chief scores. Armstrong bagged four wickets. England eleven all out for 229 chiefly owing to ibeagency of Howell, who got. .5 wickets for 34. Arnold eariied his score to 51, and Pearson 20, was the other chief icorer. When stutnps wore drawn six Colonial wickets wpre down for 183. Trumper 52, Hill 50, Darling 31, were the top scores. Hargreave got. four of the wickets. n, London, Yesterday. The Chronicle approves of the treaty a£( being simply defensive; o'her newspapers argue that there are few partners with whom we would so willlingly run risks, if risks there be. The Post states that ratification is absolutely assured. German newspapers com* ment ill-humoredly and revive the outcry of yellow peril. Britain entering into the combination is h' .stile to Europe The Times Berlin correspondent says relaxation of Germany’s pressure on France is due to the prospect ,of a restoration to the Russians of the weight of European balance. The Nippon Bteam navigation Company is ordering eight new liners from the Clyde. Constantinople, Yesterday. Well armed Tartars are besieging Shtisha and have -begun to massacre the Armenians, Turks entered Saua unopposed. Lonion, Yesterday Mr Martens Dennison, representing Russia and Japan, completed the preamble of the first three articles in the treaty. The Japanese press is silent, and Jthe public of Japan are not informed of the details. Baron Kotsura’s withholding the terms causes misgivings at St Petersburg, lest a serious outburst of popular indignation occur in Japan.