CABLE NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume 57, Issue 10520, 21 January 1903, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

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Lo_-DQ_., Jan 19. The fowners of the Marrung were awarded L 7,000 for salving the Bo- ' veric. The death was announced of Sir J S Montefiore, the Italian Consul-General ;of London, aged 81, and Mehemed Pasha, Governor of Tripoli. New York, Jan 1 9. Sixteen inch American coastdefenee guns were successfully tested at Sandy Hook. Passengers by the St Louis are sueing for damages for delay, alleging the boilers were not; overhauled at South- ..* hmnpton. ; America is building forty-four new ; coast defence guns. The projectile > •weighs twenty-four hundred pounds acd a smokeless powder charge 640 i pounds, giving a velocity of twentythrew hundred feet. The pressure is f thirty-eight thousand pounds and will Thave a range of twenty mile*, effective |at five miles. ; Sydney, Jan. 20. The preliminary heafcs to select a |; rider to meet Walker on Wednesday |nighfc resulted in a victory for Gud--'geon. The winner will race Taylor three one mile heats and finally decide the championship. MEI.KOI- -.-.J., Jan. 20. The Outt.iua and Jumbunna coal miners have struck asainstja reduction .in wages. A thousand men are out. | The Minister of Railways as a roll suit of the Railway and (he Engine fe Diivers' Association affiliating has instructed the Railway Commissioners < to take steps fco revoke the affiliation j, of Railway Employers Societies with |: the Trades Hall. p Brisbane, Jan. 20. £ Dr Morrison states that the cabled |v report that Prince Tuan is preparing vto march to Pekin with an army of / fifty thousand has br- en current for the past eighteen months and is not