VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8486, 13 July 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

( BELGIUM AND THE CONGO. Received July 12, 7.40 a.m. BRUSSELS, July 11. The Belgian Premier, Count de Naeyer, states that a Congo State Annexation Bill will be introduced during the present session. CHRIST T AN SCIENCE LEADER. Received July 12, 8.52 a.m. NEW YORK, July 11. The court has appointed two specialists to examine into the mental condition of Mrs Mary Glover Eddy, founder of the sect of Christian Science. BISLEY RIFLE MEETING. Received July 12, 11.57 a.m. LONDON, July 11. At the Bisley Rifle Meeting, England won the Mackinnon Cup, Scotland being second, and Australia third. Received July 12, 9.18 p.m. LONDON, July 12. The scores in the Mackinnon Cup were as follow:-England, 1,513; Scotland, 1,505; Australia, 1,467; Canada, 1,450; Ireland, 1,410. WRECK OF A YACHT. Received July 12, 8.52 a.m. BERLIN, July 11. Herr Tietgin's yacht Hamburg has been totally wrecked while racing between Heligoland and Osterrd. Two of the crew were drowned. ACCUSATIONS AGAINST DR. PETERS. Received July 12, 11.38 p.m. BERLIN, July 12. The newspaper Reichsbets, the organ of the German Protestants, declares that malicious English intrigues were the sole cause of the accusations of maltreatment of natives preferred against Qr. Peters, and accuses the British Ambassador at Berlin (the Right Hon. Sir Frank Lascelles) of bringing a German journalist to circulate stories discrediting the German colonial policy. (A cablegram from Berlin recently stated that the Socialist newspaper Muencheuer Post had been fined £25, with heavy costs, for libelling Dr. Karl Peters. The paper revived stories of atrocities attributed to Dr. Peters in German East Africa fin 1891, calling him a cowardly muvderer.)