VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8378, 12 March 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

LONDON MUNICIPAL POLITICS

Received March 11, 8.4S a.m. LONDON, March 10,

At the election of the chairman of the London County Council, Lord Curzon and Lord Cawdor, Municipal Reformers, declined office. Mr Percy Harris, chief director of the policy of the London Municipal Society, was thereupon elected.

EMIGRANTS REFUSE TO EMBARK. Received March 11, 9./7 a.m. MADRID, March 10."' Three hundred out of 3,000 Spanish emigrants, who were embarking at Malaga for Hawaii, refused to sail, declaring that the ship was badly fitted, and that the food was poor. The Governor and the United States, Consul failed to solve the difficulty. The emigrants are destitute, and are camping on the quays. ROYALTY VISITS THE SICK. Received March 11, 8.49 a.m. LONDON, March 10. The Queen and the Dowager Empress of Russia paid a surprise*visit to the London Hospital, and spent two and a half hours with the patients.

OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE. Received March 11, 8.49 a.m. LONDON, March 10. The betting in connection with the University boat race is 95 to 50 on Cambridge. A HEROINE. Received March 11, 8.49 a.m. LONDON, March 10. Queen Alexandra has telegraphed through the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Lord E)gin) to the Governor-General of Canada (Earl Gi-ey) her admiration of Miss Maxwell's heroism and bravery, and her sympathy with those bereaved in connection with the fire at the Protestant School at Montreal.

(Seventeen children were burnt to death in a fire at the Hochelaga Protestant School, Montreal. The principal, Miss Maxwell, perished while making a desperate attempt to save the smaller children. Her body was found surrounded by the corpses of children).

A FIERY GERMAN. Received March 11, 10.40 p.m. BERLIN, March 11. Baron Marshall, Germany's chief representative at The Hague Peace Conference, and the correspondent of the newspaper Neue Politische-—fre-quently the mouthpiece of the Government warns England' not to provoke too heatedly a world historic decision as to whom the supremacy of EuTope belongs. After bluntly expelling Germany's friendship, says the Baron, England spun a diplomatic net which already unpleasantly hampers Germany's freedom. If she persists. Germany may some day ruthlessly destroy the artificial net before she is too tightly hemmed in.

"France," says Baron Marshall, "pulls the chestnuts out of the fire for England. We shall make the fire very hot. The army Germany will place in the field on the first day of mobilisation will be sufficient to crush France, even if part of it is detached to operate against England.",

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