GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 276, 18 May 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, May 10. Herr von Ividerlen-Waechter, speaking in the Budget Committee of the Reichstag, declined to ruake a statement as to the position of the Anglo-German negotiations, hut incidentally mentioned that he was negotiating for compensation for German losses arising in the South African war. AN IMPERIAL SENATE. London, May 10. Mr. Asquith, replying to Mr. Norton Griffiths, Unionist member for Wednesbury, said he was unable to appoint a committee from the members of the I House of Commons who signed a petition presented to him on April 27, 1011, j to take steps to further the creation of an Imperial Senate. ARMS AND AMMUNITION SEIZED. Madrid, May 10. Acting on information from Hamburg Socialists, the authorities at Corunna seized twenty-one bales, alleged to contain German paper, which, were addressed to a Catholic resident. The bales were found to contain 200 rifles and 2008 packets of cartridges, intended for the Portuguese Monarchists. A CATHEDRAL PILLAGED. Paris, May 16. Thieves damaged several columns and a tabernacle ill the cathedral at Die, in the South of France. They also set on fire two hundred seats and badly burned an eleventh century porch, the high altar, and the organ. A CHINESE LOAN. Pekin, May 16. The loan negotiations with the six Powers have been concluded so far as Pekinj is concerned. The first advances, amounting to £10,000,000, will cover the period to the end of October, and afterwards a loan of £40,000,000 will be issued. The London representatives of the Six Powers interested in the Chinese £00,000,000 loan are conferring in London. A SPANISH RIOT. \ Lisbon, May IG. } During a fair at Bando, Galicia, near {the frontier, thirty Portuguese exiles wore wounded in a conflict with Spanish | residents, a number of whom were in- | jured. The inhabitants attacked a reslI dence of some Portuguese Royalists, . compelling the occupants to quit. j A CORNER IN RICE. J Tokio, May 16. j As speculators have cornered the rice '.supply, the 'Government is considering the reduction of the import duty. A FIGHT AT MELILLA. Madrid, May 16. El Mizzian, one of the leading Riffian chiefs, has been killed in a fight at Melilla. THE MALTA FIRE. London, May 16. The fire on the P. and O. steamer Malta has been extinguished. PLAGUE IN DURBAN, j Capetown, May 16. The plague has been stamped out in j Durban. 1 SOUTH AFRICA'S POPULATION. ! Capetown, May 16. Tlie census shows that the South African Union has a population o! 5,973,394, including " 4,697,152 natives and colored persons.