TO-DAY'S CABLES

Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 232, 27 March 1905, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES

Serious Collision Between Two | Liners. ?

Telegraph.Press Association. Copyright Received March 27, 8.80 a.m. London, March 26. The Allan liner Parisian, with a thousand passengers aboard collided with Hamburg- American liner Albano, with eight hundred aboard, off Halifax, Nova Scotia. Both vessels made for port. The Albano's bows were crushed and the Parisian is down by the stern. There were no casualties. Tobacco Dispute. London, March 26. The House of Lords decided in favour of the retail tobacco dealers. They held that Ogden's Limited, were liable for the distribution of the promised bonus of two hundred thousand pounds per annum for four years. The Assouan Dam. London, March 26. The scheme for raising the Assouan dam has been suspended, owing to British Professors of applied mathematics and mechanics declaring the wall is unable to sustain any further strain. ! Billiards. London, Maroh 26. t In a billiard match Weis?, giving 1000, beat Cook by 7000 to 5482. Club Swinging Record. London, March 26. Burrows swung a two pound club for 47 hours, thus establishing » record. Purchase of Horses for Japan, Sydney, This Day. Nearly ten thousand horses for Japan have been purchased in Queensland and New South Wales. The Missing Steamer Pilbarra. Brisbane, This Day. Arrived — Moana. She made a fruitle? ; s search for the Pilbarra. Returjn of a Scientific Expedition Bbisbane, This Day. The scientific expedition has returfjed from Fiji. Dr Woolnought sta fees the biological evidence in favor of a continual connection bf jtween Fi:i and the great AustralI Papuan continent is very strong.