GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7533, 6 May 1903, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Per Press Association—Copyright.) I THE SALONIKA TROUBLE. LONDON, Yesterday. The German warship Lovelly at Constantinople lias been ordered to Salonika. The number of Bulgarians killed at Sale -ika numbered below one hundred. A man disguised as a Turkish priest yesterday tried to throw a bomb into the Telegraph Office. He was captured and executed. Stores of dynamite have been discovered at Uskub, where a Bulgarian was arrested for firing at "the steai/iei* Gaudelquiver at Salonika on Tuesday and endangering* in passengers. DTSORDER AT KIEI.F. ■ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday. One hundred Jewish families, fearing* massacre, loft KiefY. Troops are patrolling* the street ;. Assemblages have been forbid:': n. and tho populace warned that the troops, in the case of need, will use weapons. THE BANK NOTE FORGERS. LONDON, Tuesday. At tho Old Bailey, IT. Bernstein was sentenced to ten years, and Goldman to five years imprisonment in connection with the bank of England note forgeries. Bernstein was arrested in Capetown in January last. ENGINEER STRIKE. Contrary to the advice of tho Executive of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers that the men should not strike pending a joint conference, six thousand"" of the Clyde engineers will go out at the end of this week. CARNEGIE AGAIN. NEW YORK, Tuesday. Mr Carnegie has given one million dollars towards the erection of the New York headquarters of the National Engineering Societies. PARTITION* OF CHINA. Mi* Hay asks, in connection with the projected American Commercial Treaty, that Pekin J. O made an open port in the hope of averthi"* the partition of China. ° THE KING.

PARIS, Tuesday. A message was transmitted to tbe Military (Jovornor of Paris containing King* Edwars's congratulations on the appearance and bearing of tbe. troops. At his Majesty's instance the troops we: c granted a days rest. King Edward sent v telegram to President Loubet warmly thanking: him for tho reception given to him by Prance Tbe King- slept aboard tiie Royal yacht and leaves Cherbourg to-day. FRANCE AND BRITAIN. LONDON, Yesterday. The French and British newspapers have the prospect of permanent friendly and trustful relations President Loubet is assured ol a great welcome in London. A FALSE ALARM. CAPETOU-N, Yw,-oi »Jbv It has been ascertained that "the deaths at Johannesburg*, winch it was feared were due to an outbreak ol bubonic plague were due to pneumonia. AMERICA'S PRESIDENT. _ r _,_. NEW YORK, Yesterday. Mr Mark Hanna, in an interview doclarod that President Roosevelt would certainly receive tbe Republican nomination in 190-4. IRISH LAND BILL. LONDON, Yesterday The second reading \ n the t * e *; ate on the Irish Land Bill foreshadows a protracted discussion in Committee. The Nationalists ask for wider concessions. Tbe Government has promised fair consideration to all amendments in Committee.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE, Last night. The railway dispute is in an almost hopeless position. To-ni«*ht the deleght the delegates of the railway men had another interview with the Premier at which they refused absolutely to sever afliliation with the Trades Council. The Premier asked tho delegates if they were aware that they had adopted a worse position of disobedience than before. Their action appeared as an indication that they did not trust him. He deprecated the Societies exacting- conditions at the point of the bayonet.

The Secretary of the Trades Hall has received promises of financial support from the railway men in New South Wales and Westralia SYDNEY, Last night. A German steamer from tho Marshall Group reports that the wreck-

age of an unknown vessel was washed ashore at that place. The opinion here is that it may belong to the French ship Duconedio, overdue from 'Frisco with wheat. The following team has been selected to represent the Commonwealth at Bisley :—Carter, Grummett, Whitehead, Lieut. Rickwood, Matheson, Lindsay, Soden,' He nan', Bradley, Lake, Lloyd and Elivec. The team will he under Colonel Oldershawas manager. PERTH, Last night. The Supreme Court,.in giving a verdict for the defendant in a case against tho Commissioner of Railways claiming damages for arrest by a railway oflicer, held that the action could not be against the Commissioner, it having been clearly laid clown that the bead of the Department is not liable for the wrongful acts of his officers.