CABLE NEWS
Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7129, 3 January 1901, Page 2
CABLE NEWS
(Press Association.— _opyrig_t.) London, January 2. The Duke of York has been gazetted a Rear Admiral.
The petition rf the creditors of tha Globe Finance Corporation for compulsonly winding up will be heard oatho 16th.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Premier, has asked the Duke and Duchess of York to visit Canada durinc the present year. °
_~ Paris, January 2. Though a Military Court acquitted Colonel Cmquet on a charge of countenancmg a want of discipline, General Andre has sentenced him to sixty dava in a fortress. .•**«»