TO-DAY'S CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7401, 17 September 1902, Page 3

TO-DAY'S CABLE NEWS

(B. ii eerie Telegraph.—Cop;, light.* (Pel Press As-Oiiritton.) Keeei-e." S-ptcin'-er 17. 10.1 1 _.-v. | An Actor's Bankrupt-.-. I S.dn_t, Wclmvihty. At the exnmination in bankruptcy cl Ilenr. B.a".tii, an operati • ni!r»-r, nt tribut tl his lui'urc U.bad l.usii.c. _ ttr.cl tliudoi'V.im of some of the piin ipn' memb-rs of thcJosephino Ptantou Company whrn ' c arrivcu in Atialralin' ufter ihe New Zo ihvr.d (our. Tbe Timber Industry. A «■ nilcnun, tepric.irnting n. Wellington firm, is v;siting Grif;on and endeavouring to place nn order of sever .1 million fed ol timber a>rd wood for blocki nig purpose.. An Open Verdict. The jury returned nn open vi rdict in connection with liiiuduii's death. Cable Laying. Mi'i.not.'itNi:, Tuesday. The Fcrleril P.r.t.nl '..parlmcnt hope tho laying ol the Vancouver-Fanning sretion ef tin- Pacific cable with the ex tmsion to Fiji -vill bo completed in th middle of November. The Cruiser Colypso. Received September 17, nt 10.IG a m. London, Tuesday Tho Governor of Newfoundland lins se-nred tho services ot tho cruiser Co!ypsj. Found..ins of a Steamer. A British steamer, tho Mch.dal-1, founleror* on Garftrg Island Thr: captain aud 13 of the crow wero drowned. Kaihvay Expenditure in Soutli Africa. Out of a million expended iv tho department controlled by tho military director of railways m South Africa, only £10,000 went lo'forolgi.ois. Columbian ..evolution. New VoitK, Tuesday. I Tho United States cruiser Panther, with 320 mnriric-s and six field piece., has been ordered to Colon in connection with tbo Co'vmbian revolution.