CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 6780, 24 August 1900, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

io Telegraph—Copyright. | Press Association.)

GENT MASSACRE,

London, August 22. 1 has promised to punish the c massacre at Spagbank, in rey, where 200 Armenians y killed by soldiery. The the town of Bitlis, in whose massacre occurred, has been a office. j lON AND CONCILIA- ! TION. Sydney, August 23. j ative Assembly is discussing tl Arbitration Bill. >wan, loader of the Labor red that if the measure did ot what trade unionists exuld prove one of the greatest sections of the community, nent of awards was warranted lat conciliation as a voluntary d the world over. PACIFIC ISLANDS. Sydney, August 23. y Telegraph says that the of the question of annexaZtealand does not appear to jy any federal spirit. It is aisiness matter. "What the }i desire is merely a change "istin'g form of government, .nee is perhaps well founded, jested remedy is a bad one. id from New Zealand would h better governed than it is Zealand objected to joining .an federation because of her m Australia. The same obild apply in regard td New 1 Fiji. IB AT A COLLIERY. Sydney, August 23. ton Colliery is idle owing to •s striking because the manmsed to reinstate one of the lad been discharged far disOver 500 men and boys are ISCELLANEGUS. London, August 22. :ott, the Middlesex cricketer, : Victoria, has compiled 1000 . present season. Beelix, August 22. fof Hopetoun, who has been is the first Governor-General ia, ' has been entertained at ;he German Emperor. Melbourne, August 23. per cent, loan of £500,000 Jy by the Victorian GovernIged £98 10s 4d or 10s 4d per : the fixed miuimum. AUSTRALIAN BUDGET. Adelaide, August 23. tsurer(the Hon. F. "W. Holder) lis Budget Speech to-night, ue was shown to have been ) (an increase of .£115,881 over as year), and the expenditure J. The estimate of the revenue irrenc year on the basis of a sel harvest is £2,869,377, and lditure £%86T,T27. It was by the Treasurer that the share of the cost of Fedpval mt would be £40,000. To- : £20,000 has been allowed off at year's Customs revenue to first half-year's cost.