VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8388, 27 March 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

HELD FOR RANSOM. BRITISH CHILD KIDNAPPED. Received March 26, 8.25 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 25. A son of Mr Robert Abbott, a British merchant at Salonica, was kidnapped within a "stone's throw of the British Consulate. . He is held for ransom. (Salonica, on the Gulf of the same name, has a population of 121,600, and is second in importance to Constantinople only.) DEADLY EXPERIMENT. Received March 26, 8.25 a.m. AMSTERDAM, March 25. Lieutenant Schuurman was killed in the Amsterdam Arsenal, while filling a new model shell of his own invention. Another man was killed and two were wounded. SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE. Received March 26, 8.25 a.m. NEW YORK,. March 25. Owing to the stoppage of the steamship service between California and Australia, the I Postmaster- J General will not accejpt parcels for Australia until further notice. j PREFERENTIAL RATES. j Received-March 26, 8.25 a.m. LONDON; March 25. Mr Lloyd George, President of the Board of Trade, is introducing a Bill to terininate preferential rates on imports: He considers it an anomaly to favour these instead of exports. OBITUARY. Received March 26, 8.25 a.m. LONDON, March 25. I The death is announced of the widow of Bishop George Selwyn. j (The first Bishop of New 1 Zealahd,' George Augustus Selwyn, whose life j work in the early days of the colony is well known, was married in 1839 to Sarah, daughter of Sir J. Richardson, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Mrs Selwyn arrived in New Zealand in the ship Tomatin, in 1842, just after the arrival of her husband, who had gone ahead from Sydney in another boat.) Received March 26, 9.10 p.m. LONDON, March 26. The fieath is announced of Mr Jas. George Anderson of the Orient Company.' POSSIBILITY OF A, FREGIHT ■-■'■ WAR...' Received March 26, 10.19 p.m. March 26. . The Tyser Line, in conjunction with Hansa, German, ; and American Lines, announces that they will despatch two steamers from New York to Australia every three months, as there is a possibility of a freight war with other British and > American lines.