GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9033, 26 February 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Received February 25, 10.13 p.rn ROME, February 25.

Nasi, a former Italian Minister, has been found guilty of misappropriation of money and has been sentenced to 350 days' imprisonment. He is to be barred for fifty months from holding public office. He has also been fined 200 lire and costs.

Lombardo,. his official secretary, has been acquitted on the ground of insufficient evidence. Received February 25, 8.43 a.m. LONDON, February 24. The "Daily Mail" says that Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is making friendly representations to Japan regarding the Takumen Railway. H.R.H. Princess Christian is suffering from influenza. She is progressing. The "Daily News" says that the Government is purchasing Hastings harbour as a preliminary to forming a naval station there. BERLIN, February 24. An anonymous Australian, claiming to have been recently a British secret service agent, has published a book in Berlin purporting to include despatches and telegrams to. Lord Selborne, High Commissioner in South Africa, supplying detailed revelations of the Pan-German and anti-British movement in South Africa. The book alleges that Germany i» qgain tying to create discontent between natives and Boers.