GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7536, 9 May 1903, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Press Association—CopyrJC'l*-) BALKANS RISING* CONSTANTINOPLE, Fri<l" J \ Omor Ptisha is marcJiinff <-o -ipct. Other troops are travors«"» to &aIJ onika and VorisovitchTroops at Monastic /utcrcopted a Bulgarian band attompting to explode a powder ix"^"™- A fight ensued in tho stress, Several wore killed and v/qu" f! oC1- . . Two Hi!'£" nans, at I'reshtina were nvrc^d on a charge of attempting f". "lui-der the Ilusaian Consul ']<■ I'ho i'l'dich naval ilevision has bcull ordered to Salonika. Ccn.,j);ii- s reports represent Bulgaria it- i son as a huge Macedonian insurrec- ' tiou Lomnnttee. GERMAN SQUADRON* BERLjIN, Friday, i i-inco Henry's /leet will i ; 0 tho linest fleet over voyaging. It will consist ot' live battleships oZ the Kaiser class, and six modern cruisers. It v.-ill call at Chorboiu-g undLisbon. FOOT AND MOUTH DISiIOASE. " r BUENOS AYRES, Yesterday. The Argentina, decree prohibits the importation of cattle, sheep and pigs, owing to one case of foot and mouth disease among the imported cattle now at Buenos Ay res and other cases reported at Capetown. SHUTTING UP A IIIVAL. NEW YORK. Friday. The British American Tobacco Company has purchased its rival— the T, Oj Williams' Company, of> Richmond. The price, is two million dollars. HUSH LAND BILL. LONDON, Thursday. By 443 votes to. 26 the Irish Land Bill was read a second time. Mr Coghill moved tho rejection of the measure. Mr Healy .mercilessly attacked the Home Rule Liberals who opposed the measure, and predicted that the Bill would change more than Ireland would change,- and England too. Mr Morlcy, warmly supporting the Bill, elicited from Mr Wyndhain, amid cheers, a promise to discuss the iirst clause in committee stage with an open mind. ! All the members of the minority \ consisted of two Unionists, Messrs I Dilke and Ilaync, and the remainder Liberals, SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S GOVERNOR. LONDON, Yesterday. Sir George Ruthven Le Hiinte, C.M.Cv., Lieut.-Oovernor of New Guinea, has been appointed Governor of South Australia. KING EDWARD. The Italian and Japanese fleets will arrive at Spithead in July. King Edward will hold a grand review on board.

TRADE RETURNS., The trade returns for April show that the imports have decreased by Ji2,397,(i01, aiul the cxjiorts decreased by £35(5,156. RUSSIAN" EMIOIIATIONa. The Standard's Odessa correspondent states that Russia is steadily settling emigrants in the vicinity oi Afghanistan in hatches of one hundred to iive hundred., SOMALILANI) EXPEDITION* '< Router's messages state that Captain I'lunk.ett's last stand was made in the open ground, covered with low bushes three lect high. The Mullah's'forces occupied thick! bush.. The Mullah led tho last rush. I Meanwhile, after ordering fifty ! survivors to make a ihial charge, i Plunkett was shot dead. BARON SAUKVLLLE.. The Court of Chancery lias gran- j ted a commission to enable Ernest Henri Sackvillc West to secure testimony abroad with a view of showing that he is Baron Sackville,. I the lawful son. lie alleges that Baron Sackville married .Josephine Duran at DeOrtega in 186-1. Sackville declares that Josephine married Juan l)e la Oliva in 1851, and that this marriage was not dissolved, ENGINEERS' STRIKE. The employers having maintained their notice for a reduction in wages, six thousand Clyde engineers continue to strike. TRANSVAAL LOAN, The Transvaal loan runs over a hall" a century, but the Transvaal is entitled to redeem it in 1923. The lirst dividend will be payable in November. There is a great rush for prospectuses, and the loan is already subscribed eight-fold. ] t closes on Tuesday. COLLISION, SYDNEY, Yesterday. When the steamer Balmoral, from Wcstport, was entering the Newcastle harbour she collided with Hie tug Victoria. Both vessels were damaged, the Balmoral, it is believed, severely. SLAUGHTERING STOCK j CAPETOWN, Yesterday. , The llavei'sham Orange's cargo' was slaughtered before landing.1 Others will be similarly dealt witl,'