CABLE NEWS

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 119, 18 November 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

Press Assn — By telegraph — Copyright. NEW YORK, yesterday. James Decar, a negro, charged with assaulting an Indian boy at Oklohama, barricaded his dwelling and shot and killed the sheriff and six others. He then committed suicide by firing tho house and being burnt to death. , , t ROME, yesterday. The Pope celebrated his jubilee by a mass at St. Peter's in the presenco of T0.,000 people.- --■ ■■ - LONDON .yesterday. A drive of 600 cattle, sheep and horses'took place on the estate of Mr W. Ball, a magistrate, at Ballynacally, Clare. The land was let to several persons on the 11 months system. One hundred of tho cattle were* recovered, -and six arrests wero made* < ; ... . ; Fairburn, a Meibournian, won tho Cambridge Colquhoun sculls. Sir Christopher Furness, in order to inaugurate his scheme of partnership witli his men, has personally ordered 12 steamers from the local yards. It is believed his partners will' order another 12. The capacity of the yard does not exceed 24 a year. Lord Hugh Cecil, at Halifax, announced that the Dean of Canterbury had circularised the incumbants of England and Wales, urging the defeat of the proposed Education Bill compromise. ; Mr Churchill invites the Manchester Society of Employers and Employed ;to meet--*the Board of Trade w^th a. .view of supplementing the Brookland agreement by methods ascertaining the actual state of trade and the establishment of a conciliation scheme in order to prevent disputes in the cotton. ..trade. ; If a scheme is devised, it will be' submitted for the approval of the ereht organisations concerned. f [ Miss Louisa Mac Donald, principal of the Women's College at Sydney, in a letter to the Times, declares the exercise of women's franchise in Australia involves nothing, dangerous of harmful.