DINIZULU.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9056, 15 February 1908, Page 5

DINIZULU.

CABLE HEWS.

United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph copyright.

THE MOTHERLAND AND

NATAL. ! COMMENT BY "THE TIMES." Received February 14, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, February 14. "The Times" considers that the Motherland is entitled to tender the Natal Government advice inasmuch as she is under some measure of responsibility in connection with the conditions of Dinizulu's return. "The Times" adds: "It would tend to restore confidence in Britain, and equally in Natal, if the Premier of Natal could see his way to summon a special session of Parliament immediately instead of waiting till June."

THE AFRIDIS.

A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION

Received February 14, 8.23 a.m. CALCUTTA, February 13. Major-Genera' W'llcocks, with 700 men left Alimasjid for the Zakka Khel country. (The expedition is being sent in order to punish the Afridi tribesmen of the Zakka Khel, who are making constant raids and are demoralising the districts on the Indian border).

THE BRITISH NAVY.

REDUCTION OF ESTIMATES. Received January 14, 8.28 a.m. 'LONDON, February 13. The Radicals are strongly pressing the Government to reduce the navy estimates.

MORE DREADNOUGHTS WANTED.

LONDON, February 13,

The Right Hon. George Wyndham, M.P. for Dover, addressing the 1900 Club, said that if Britain wished to retain the supremacy of the sea she must increase the number of Dreadnoughts and complete her base at Rosyth without delay. Britain must nevur lower the Union Jack before the red flag of cosmopolitan Socialism.

MONTE CARLO MURDER.

Received February 14, 8.23 a.m. MONTE CARLO, February 13. Mrs Goold will shortly be sent to Caiyenne, where she will be imprisoned. [The sentence of death passed on Mrs Goold, for the m'urder of Mrs Levin, at Monte Carlo, some months ago, was recantly commuted to imprisonment for life.]

MR DEAKIN'S NAVAL POLICY.

0; TIIE "HAPPY MEAN."

Received February 14, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, February 14

The "Morning Post" declares that the Australian criticisms of Mr A. Deakin's naval policy are m some respects mutually destructive, and suggests that he has chosen the happy mean. The paper believes that Mr Deakin has succeeded in reconciling the interests of Imperial union with those of national development.