CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7029, 13 June 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) (Press Association.) ' SMALL-POX. Adelaide, June 12. . Berry, the small-pox patient on the Qrmuz, is dead. UNREST IN CUBA. New Yobk, June 12. The Nationalist Party in Cuba is very active, and is threatening to resist the Cuban policy of the American Government. COLLAPSE OF A STRIKE. .. Sydney, June 12. The strike at tho Clyde Engineering Works has ended, and the men have resumed work. MRS McKINLEY'S HEALTH. New Yokk, June 121. Mrs McKihley, wife of the President, who has been seriously ill, is now out of danger. THE1 AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. New Yoek, June 12. With a view "of silencing rumours prejudicial to State affairs, Mr McKinley ■ has emphatically declared that ho will not accept nomination as President of the United States for a third term. His sole ambition is, he says, to serve his second term acceptably to the Republic. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. London, June 12. For the week' ending the Bth inst. there havo been 160 fresh cases of plague at Hongkong. The total number of deaths has been 155. " ■

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. In tlie House of Commons the Govern menfc, by a majority of 33 votes, securet tlie remaining time of tlie session ex cepting Wednesdays, for Governmorii business. t CRICKET. Maclaren has arranged to take a teair of English cricketers to Australia. The team will include Lilly, Jessoj. and Hayward. A. FATAL EXPLOSION. - By an explosion on board the torpedodestroyer Daring at Portsmouth one stoker was killed and four -were fearfully injured. REFORMS IN SPAIN. "Madrid. Jnne 12. Ihe Qucen-Kegent Christina, in opening the Cortex, announced proposed army, monetary circulation, municipal and other - reforms, the suppression of certain religious orders, and the, reduction of the number of bishops' fees, the 1 proceeds from which would be demoted to relieving the country clergy. The Queen-Regent appealed to the and union of the nation "on the • eve of the reign of King Alfonso XIII.