VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 25 March 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

THE BAGDAD RAILWAY. PARIS, March 22. Germany has ascertained that it is impossible to advance the Bagdad railway beyond the Taurus mountains without much foreign capital. The French Bourse will not assist unless the management covers French, English, and Russian interests.

ACCIDENT IN THE HUNTING FIELD.

LONDON, March 22,

While the Cheshire hounds were in hot pursuit of a fox in the Warmingham district, Lord Linlithgow's horse failed to rise to a fence and fell heavily on his Lordship. His collarbone is believed tobe broken. (The Marquis of Linlithgow was, as Lord Hopetoun, first Governor-Gen-eral of the Commonwealth. This is his second accident in the hunting field withint a few years, the former being attended with serious injuries). IRISH FACTION AND COLONIAL AID. LONDON, March 22. Mr Devlin, one of the Irish delegates who visited Australasia, interviewed on arrival at Queenstown, said the delegates magnificently received by all classes and creeds in Australasia. So long as the people at Home were united and discountenanced faction, they might rely on the generosity of Australasians until self government was won. TO RELIEVE HOME CONSUMERS. LONDON, March 22. There are persistent reports that Mr Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, intends to repeal the taxes on coffee, cocoa and dried fruits. (According to a Daily Telegraph estimate, Mr Asquith's surplus for 1906-7 is five millions. The duties proposed to be remitted are:—Coffee, per cwt, 14s, roasted or ground, 2d per lb; cocoa, Id per lb, ground or prepared, 2d per lb; dried fruitcurrants 2s per cwt, figs, raisins, etc. 7s per cwt.) 1 A CENTRE OF ATTRACTION. PARIS, March 22. Owing to riots at the Paris morgue it has been closed to sight-seers. MONEY FOR RED CROSS WORK. LONDON, March 22. The Standard states that the Dowager Empress of Russia, sister of the Queen, who is visiting England, has given £IO,OOO to the Red Cross Soci- j ety, the interest thereon to be allocated to three prizes, which will be given for the invention of the best .paeans to relieve wounded on the battlefields and at sea. TINNED BEEF AND MUTTON. Received March 24, 4.54 p.m. LONDON, March 23. The War Office is inviting tenders, to close on July 15th, for half a million pounds of tinned beef and mutton, to be replaced annually till 1910. THE PEACE' OF THE WORLD. Received March 24, 4.32 p.m. LONDON, March 23. Reuter reports that M. Stolypih has told the Powers that he is determined to co-operate with the Duma to secure peace. This has led to a resumption of the negotiations with Great* Britain which were interrupted in October by the reactionaries, who form the majority of the Council of the Empire, organising systematic opposition to the Government. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Received March 25, 1.3 a.m. LONDON, March 24. Consols are quoted at 84J. The weakness in New York and the heavy liquidation has caused a general fall in the London Stock Exchange. A number of failures are probable at the coming settlement.

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