GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

AFFRAY WITH RAND COOLIES.,. BT TELEGEAFH—I'BESS ASSOCIATION—COI'IRIGIIT. ■ (Rec. Oct. 22, 10.35 p.m.). Pretoria, October 22. ; Chinese rioters near Modderfontein ambushed the police while the latter were entering a barricaded compound through tho kitchens. The police ivero obliged to fire, killing one,: and ; wounding nineteen, of tho Chinese. ... ■ .'-... ,- . ■ . ~ . FRUSTRATED TRAEST-WRECKERS. ' •-.-.. : London, October 22. ' Two determined attempts wore anado to derail Queenstown-Cork traiiis, near Little Islriad, County Cork! Both attempts' wore frustrated. .' ■ ■ '.' " ■ 7 ' ' ■. ; BIG, CROP LOSSES/ \ ' London, October 22. Losses sustainod by' Scottish ■'agriculturists through' rain ruining tho grain crops aro estimated at 2J millions. •" '''''' ' ' SHACKELTON EXPEDITION. ' ■ • ■ SyCney, October 22. Mr. Reid,- manager for Commander Shackloton's Antarctic expedition, has arrived hero on route 'for Now Zoaland to complete final arrangements for, tho oxneditiorii-', :.. •■•■ "' ■ ••■-. ■ t- '■■■[ ■■'~'. ,' CHURCH ROBBERIES. ' -•■■■' : Paris, October 21. : The police at. .Liin'ogos havo received a mysterious package from, London, returning a Fourteenth Century statue of the Virgin, -worth £1000, supposed- : to. havo, been-stolen by Thomas (the alleged reliquary thief) from ; tho church, at SaiiTotat..' ' : . .. ' THE.BARQUE AAGOT., . v , , Adelaide, October 22. ; Tho Court of Enquiry into ,the wreck of tho barque Aagot, which went ashoro on Wardong (Wauraltee) Island, Spencer's Gulfj finds that moro caro should have been taken to verify the ship's position than by dead reckoning., BIG FIRE IN , MANCHESTER. , , London, October 21. Mossrs. Robert -Barbo-up- Brothers', warehouse at Manchester has beon destroyed by (ire. 'The damago amounts to a hundred and twenty thousand pounds. j TRAFALGAR DAY. ■ /London, October 21. The Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square was decorated to-day in honour of the 102 nd annivorsary of tho battle of Trafalgar.. Many wreaths wore also placed upon tho column. :Flags were hoisted ,on most of tho public buildings in ,the United Kingdom. The Navy League's annual service was held in St. Martin's Church) Trafalgar Square.: ; ".