CABLE SIFTINGS.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 21 August 1906, Page 3

CABLE SIFTINGS.

Mr John Billon, at a political meeting declared that the only system of Home rule which would be acceptable to Irishmen must be on similar lines to those recently granted to the Transvaal. Affairs in South • Africa are quiet and troops are being withdrawn from the disturbed districts. King Edward aud the Kaiser have had a most friendly meeting and an affectionate farewell. The export of canned meats from Chicago for the past seven months shows a decline in value of over £281,400. ' Many Boers who tried their fortune in Argentine, are returning

to Africa, whtle'.cyherg. are t vouring to raise their fare to return. Anarchy prevails in Poland. Nineteen policemen, four gendarmes, and seven infantrymen have been killed, besides numbers who were wounded. Soldiers fired upon the revolutionists, killiig 15 and wounding 130 with bullets and bayonets. Grave disorders are reported from Russia, and in Plock, Poland, at a given signal, every policeman in the streets was killed. — The Prefect of St. Petersburg, on his own responsibility, and without trial, exiled Wright, supposed to be a British subject, to Archangel. Several English workmen were in the Lodz riots. An American gang is passing many wonderfully-forged notes in the West End of Lcudon. lhe forgery was only discovered when the notes wore presented ta the bank.