GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7791, 16 March 1904, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

(Per Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 14. Mr Justice Bingham -awaidedLovcll and Christmas, a firm of produce merchants as Smith-Held, damages against the owners of the steamer Papanui for not maijntaining the degree of temperature stipulated in the bill of lading as regards the carriage of cheese. The ■defendants pleaded that the cargo was carried at shippers' risk. PARIS, March 14. Obituary.—Jules Gamier, geologist, and discoverer of mineral Garnerite. CAIRO, March 14. j Excavations in Egypt have resrulted in the discovery of the sepulchre of Thotmas 111., who reigned about 1600 8.C., and Queen I-Xatehepsu, among the rock near Habsepsus, the Goat Temple at Dcrelbahri. NEW YORK, March 14. Medermer and Marx, two'youdiiiil ■bandits, of Chicago, were sentenced to death. The former admitted having killed 23 persons, one for'"each year of his life, and wounding 17. SYDNEY, March 15. The Redistribution of Seats Commission has issued maps of tho rearrangements of the country electorates. They reduce the 'number of representatives from 30 to 17. The Arbitration Court -has ■decided that strike levies are illegal and; cannot be enforced. It was also decided' that the local shipping Act does not distinguish between an A.B. and an ordinary seaman, the term being intended to cover ordinary seamen.