CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 6911, 19 January 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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FIRE IN SYDNEY. '-; \Mxlbovbke, January 18.--.' Mason, Firth, and M'Cuteheon's" printing -works in Littlo Collins-street hare been destroyed by fire. The stock, which was valued al twelve thousand, was insured for seven thousand. . MARINE ENQUIRY. The Court of Enquiry into the collision between the steamers Ormuz and Ismailia at Port Phillip Heads found that Emmerson, the pilot of the Ormuz, was to blame for the collision. It is understood that owing to a blunder in procedure the enquiry will prove nugatory. -. . ■ BISHOP CREIGHTON'S FUNERAL. London, January 17. % The Most Rev. Dr Temple, Archbishop of. Canterbury, conducted the funeral service at the burial of the late Dr Creighton, Bishop of London. The deceased prelate was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, being the first bishop directly buried there. LONDON AND GLOBE FINANCE CORPORATION. The reconstruction scheme of the London and Globe Finance Corporation proposes that the capital shall be £1,000,000, in pound shares, credited with fifteen shillings paid, with a further five shillings per share payable on allotment. The shareholders are offered one new share for each old one, at present held. COMMERCIAL COMPETITION. The Earl of Rosebery, at a meeting of the Wolverhampton Chamber of Commerce, discussed the question of commercial contests in the twentieth century. Our commercial classes required educating scientifically from top to bottom in order that they may fairly compete with-.the commercial classes of Germany, Japan, and America.- His Lordship urged that every Chamber should appoint travelling trade scholarships. POISON IN THE TUBES. Rome, January 17. A quantity of anti-diphtheria serum at the Milan Institute became contaminated during preparation, and produced several deaths from lockjaw. Three hundred tubes were immediately withdrawn from the doctors. SENTENCE ON A BANE OFFICIAL. New Yoek, January 17. Alvord, cashier of the First National Bank in New York, charged with defrauding that institution of £140,000, has admitted bis embezzlements, and has been sentenced to thirteen years' imprisonment. f AERIAL NAVIGATION. Beblin, January 17. Military balloonists have crossed from Berlin to Sweden. AN ACT OF CLEMENCY. Madbid, January 17. Sixteen thousand Spanish deserters during the war with America have been pardoned on the occasion of the marriage of the Princess of. the Asturias to the son of the Count de Caserta, a Bourbon prince. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Stdkey, January 18. Bear-Admiral Beaumont has" taken charge of the squadron of the Australian station. A CKUISER ASHORE. London, January 17. The second-class cruiser Sybille, 3400 tons, ran ashore at Saldanha Bay, about seventy miles north of Capetown. The crew were saved. ~ TROPICAL HEAT. Adelaide, January 18. It was extremely hot to-day, the thermometer registering 106 degrees in the shade. COMPETITION IN COMMERCE. The Hon Joseph Chamberlain, in the copse of a speech, said he hoped Birmingham University would develop a Research Institute and Faculty of Commerce. He insisted that Britain's existence as a great trading and industrial nation depended on a thorough scientific treatment of commercial education. EASILY SATISFIED. Amongst the spectators at the execution of Jimmy Governor, was George Ma-wbey, a brother of the man whose family was so relentlessly massacred.' After the execution he remarked: " Now lam satisfied. I would never have been satisfied unless I had seen this."