LATE CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 24 October 1908, Page 8

LATE CABLE NEWS.

SLAUGHTER IN JAPAN. 4PB£BB ASSOCIATION J PEKTN, Octobea- 23. According to an official statement from Japant, published ar Pekin, Japanese soldiers and gendarmerie*, between July, 1907, and August, 1903, EDled 12,916 Korean insurgentsi Only 169 Japanese were kilJed. FACTORIES FOR IRELAND. NEW YORK, October 23. There is at prospect as tho result of Mr John ]ledmomd'& representations of sejyeral Amiarioftn. manufacturers Eitarting factorias ia Ireland owing to the British Patents Act. MISCELLANEOUS. SYDNPY." October 23. Tlio fire in Block 14 r.>m<n, Broken Hill, is out. [Work hae bwn rejsumed. ' PARTS, October 23A 25 yeys' agreecneiut has be&a concluded between the J&'remoli Government iiaid the Mensagea-ies and Maritiinea Company 1 regarding suhfiiV dies 1 , including the AiiStra&an lino iThe State. sa,vee .£40,000 a year and guarantees the company's new issue — which isi designed to reaiew the floet. The: Statrt researeK the right, to partaoipats in> titei profits) subsidised.