GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 729, 31 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

By Tcleiraph-Preis A6sboiation-oor.irleht.

SUCCESS OF MAORI TENOR : IN 'ENGLAND. '.:;•■:;:■■.:;' ;;'■■ .■•'■ _ : ■'.- '.:. ■■,;'■: London, January 28.' Kangiuia, the Maori tenor singer, has lately sung at a concert at the Curzoh Hotel, and at;the'concerts of the.Duchess of Sutherland and other society, . leaders. The newspapers .state that : he has already made a great reputation. V ~ '~..•..' .[Rangiuia is a light.lyrical tenor, who before he left New Zealand; for England some seven or eight years ago displayed gifts in the interpretation of ballad music surprising in a Native. It is understood that ho originally came from • the. East Coastabove Gisborhe, and is a member of the Ngatiraukawa: tribe. 'He sang. in Wellington at" the Theatre Royal under the management of Mr. P. R. Dix, and when Wellington; Garrison': Band toured England, lent vocal assistance with Ta Rangi Pai" (Mrs. Howie) in. the concerts given.. Since'he .has.been at Home curious stories have been' published in press- ,in which, ho -has been styled Tnnce' Rangiuia: Needless to:sny.snch rpnvancings havo no' foundations in fact, though thoy are increasingly in evidence m the case' of Maoris who go oversea.] ■ A BUNGLED EXECUTION. ■ . „r 11' „■„ T6l ?eran, January 28. Muvakkar Sultaneh, a member of the doposcd Shah's entourage, who returned toTelieran from Paris, was arrested for.intriguing against the Constitution, and hanged. The .operation was bungled, and. the Teheran correspondent of '"Bio.Times", protests against the oxooution as a brutnlising spectacle.'.'" [Repulsive portions of the dbovo cablegram have been, deleted.] •. NEW AUSTRALIAN COINAGE. ' ; ■Melbourne, January 29.. The first shipment of the new Australian coinage, consisting of a million shillings, will arrive here from London on March 7.