CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5520, 12 November 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Unibed Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyrighb A FRENCH LOAN, Paris, Nov 10 A French loan of 210,000*000 francs is being issued. THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION. London, November 10

The Glasgow Exhibition has closed. A profit of £80,000 was made. Eleven and a half million people visited the exhibition.

A LADY FASTER.

Madame Ohristensen fasted for ft month at the London Aquarium* Her weight declined from 159 to 182 poinds.

FATALITY ON A WARSHIP Athens, Nov II A big gan burst on the British battleship Royal Sovereign, at Atkatoi. An officer and six artillery were killed! and the commander and 13 sailors seriously Injured. The artillerymen forgot to close the breech

LI HUNG CHANG'S FUNERAL. Sbanobai, Nov II The Emperor of China sent a Royal pall for Li Hung Chang's coffin

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

Sydney, November 11

A oity butcher and a man named Hayes were driving home on Saturday night when they wero stuck up on thsjs Parramatta road, near the University, Both were brutally assaulted end robbed of MO. tbe day's takings.

BIRTHDAY OONGRATULA. TIONS

Melbourne, November 11

The Federal Government cabled birthday congratulations to the King, and an appreciative reply has been received.

THE BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

Mr G W Sims, of the Melbourne Club, has won the bowling champion* ship of Australia.

A NATIVE INSURRECTION ":>

The steamer Oereda, f rom Mauritius, reports an insurrection among the natives of Sandalwood Island. When the steamer was at the port of Manganesi, Sandalwood, the Hatch warsbipr were gaarding the town against • threatened invasion from Sumhawa Island. Food was at famine prices, and trade was paralysed.