CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 115, 13 May 1909, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.;} ~ BRITISH AND FOREIGN. » [press association.] AERIAL ENTERPRISE. (Received May 13, 8.45 a.m.) VIENNA, May 12. Austria is preparing an aerial fleet': of the Parseval type. MINISTERS' STIPENDS. LONDON, May 12. The Congregational Union's living, wage for ministers fund has reached" £33,360. AN L.C.C. LOAN. LONDON, May 12. The London County Council is issu- - ing £2,250,000 at 3£ per cent., with a • minimum of 102. A DISUSED CABLE. LONDON, May 12. Mr Wolfe Barry,, the chairman,. states that the Eastern Extension; | Company intends to pick up the Tasmanian cable. TWENTY WOMEN DROWNED.. NEW YORK, May 12. A steam-launch at Pittsburg, while • ' crossing the Ohio River, capsized.i , Twenty out of the thirty women pas- ' sengers were drowned. SOLDIERS LOOTING. TEHERAN, May 12. A portion of the Russian troops afu I Tabriz have been sent to restore order at Marand, where the Governor's soldiers are looting. THE VICTORIAN LOAN, LONDON, May 12. Great satisfaction is expressed in. '. the city at the success of the Vie- , torian loan after the comparativefailure of recent Australian issues. REVOLUTIONISTS EXECUTED. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 12. Twenty persons were executed inConstantinople to-day. They included ' the murderers of the commander of the warship Assaritewfik. CANADIAN INSURANCE. OTTAWA, May 12. The Dominion House of Commonsamended the Insurance Bill to permit' companies to invest their securities, in any British Colony. FEAR OF HYDROPHOBIA. CALCUTTA, May 12. Lord and Lady Minto are staying at Simla. They are undergoing the Pasteur treatment after handling their; dog, which was bitten by a mad dog. RUBBER IN NEW GUINEA. LONDON, May 12. 1 The Mombiri Rubber Plantation Company has been registered, with a ' capital of £52,500, to acquire theWickhani Estate at Collingwood Bay, Papua. THE TSAR AND DEFENCE. ST. PETERSBURG, May .12. i The Tsar has addressed a rescript toM. Stolypin, the Prime Minister,'ask-' ing what legislative affairs the War and Marine Departments will subjectto the Tsar for immediate decision. RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA. PEKIN 3 Mayl2. A Russo-Chinese agreement has been signed at Pekin, defining the method of government in the Russian railway, zone in Manchuria. The agreement guarantees Chinese sovereignty, joint administration and equality of foreigners. A SEDUCER'S DEATH. NEW YORK, May 12. Captain Hams, who shot William Annis, a New York publisher, in: August last in revenge for ruining hisyoung wife, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. His brother, Thornton Hams, who kept the crowd back with a revolver while Captain Hams shot Annis, was acquitted. . ■-. .