Cable Summary.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3761, 21 April 1908, Page 3

Cable Summary.

London, April 20. Today King Edward and Queen Alexandra start on a fortnight's visit to Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Christiana. A mass meeting of the NorthEastern railway men rejected conciliation, and decided to tender their notices. Mr Chamberlain is making steady progress. He takes long walks. Although successive bulletins do not indicate a marked change, it is acknowledged that Sir H. CampbellBannerman is gradually becoming weaker. The suffragettes are straining every nerve to defeat Mr Churchill. The decrease in the Wesleyan Methodists connexion is the largest for half a century, namely—Full members, 4392; trial members, 1179; juniors, 2435. Mr M. B. Boyd Carpenter, Conservative, opposes Mr Runciman for Dewsbury, also Turner, Labourite. Calcutta, April 20. An expedition is leaving Peshnar to operate against the Moesmandes, a Pathan tribe, between Peshawar and Kohat, who have recently been very restless, raiding and sniping. Rome, April 19. A semi-official note states that ow ing to Turkey threatening to forcibly prevent the establishment of Italian post offices at Constantinople, Salonica, Smyrna, and Jerusalem, Italy Is despatching three naval divisions . to Turkish waters. get Milan, April 19. % The new wing of the co-operative Hsff rCH at Milan collapsed, killing «sg->t of 40 masons.