VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8862, 23 October 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Received October 22, 8.56 a.m. NEW YORK, October 21. Much surprise is expressed in New York at the fusion of the Republicans and Hearst's Independent League. AN APPEAL FOR CLEMENCY. Received] October 22. 10.33 a.m. LONDON, October 21. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a memorial signed by Lord Coleridge, Lord Courtney, and Dr. Clifford, appealing for the prompt release of the Egyptians concerned in the assault on British officers at Denshawi (?), said he could not at present add to his recent statement in Parliament on the subject. ATTEMPTS TO DERAIL TRAINS. Received October 22, 10.35 p.m. LONDON, October 22. Two determined attempt 3 made to derail the Queenstown and Cork trains, near Little Island, County Cork, were frustrated.

THE EXCLUSION OF ASIATICS. CANADA'S PERSISTENT CRY. Received October 22, 9.58 p m. OTTAWA, October 22. Mr Rudyard Kipling, at the Canadian Club here, urged [a powerful plea against the exclusion of Asiatics. He had been struck throughout the Dominion with the strong and persistent: cry for more help and more people. He found Hindus employed at unskilled labour which whites declined to handle. If the Canadians proposed to develop their country on the lines of a close corporation their glory would pass from them. It was as a nation among great nations that Canada would l:e judged. • The speech was greeted with cheera. Sir Wilfred Laurier, Preirier, cordially seconded a vote of thanks to Mr Kipling.