VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 2 October 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

CHINESE REFORMS,

Received October 1, 7.52 a.m. PEKIN, September 30,

Owing to Tuan Shihkai's influence, Manchu garrisons throughout the Empire have been disbanded and deprived of special privileges. This is considered an important step in the direction of eradicating racial jealousy.

PRINCESSES' TROUBLES. Received October 1, 7.6 a.m. ROME/September 30. The Tosellis are staying at the Hotel Fiesole, where detectives employed by the King of Saxony are trying to obtain the surrender of Princess Monica, who is with her mother. A force of carabineers guards the hotel.

HEAVY DEBTS. ' Received October 1, 7.52 a.m. BRUSSELS, September 30. The Princess Louise of Belgium, though her income was only £5,000, incurred debts amounting to £200,000. A syndicate is being formed to liquidate them. THE PRESIDENT AND WEALTH.

Received October 1, 11.44 p.m. NEW YORK, October 1., President Roosevelt, at the unveiling of a memorial at Canton, Ohio, to the late President McKinley, referred to the necessity of discouraging envy of wealth. It was still more important to discourage dishonest business, chicanery and wrongdoing on the part of the wealthy. Whi'e the Government were the best friends of the me.i of property and the staunchest upholders of the rights of property, they would set their faces like flint against those doing wrong in order to acquire great wealth or using wealth as a help to wrong-doing.