CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7939, 21 October 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

((By, EJectric:'.Te^gTaiph-eopyrigiiit) ■ ■ ':■' - (Per Press -Association). ■

LONDON, October 20. • : The India ofuce emphatically denies its allpged i'-u-mion to occupy C'.umbi Talley tor 73 ye^rs while the Thibetans are paying h Likh a year. '; The Times shj * that Britain is animated wuh a sincfrp (JH. s j r e to take Bussia's su.-cc-fjtWiii'.ijps nuo: account, and there is no ft'iison' why. if the Thibetans act ur> to me spiniof the treaty, payment should hot .-spread u'ver a number of years without; a corresponding extension of the period of occupation.

The destroyers Boxer and Ardent collided on the Moroccan coast on the 18th. Both were damaged. They, however, reached Gibraltar. During manoeuvres at Gibraltar yesterday, a ferry boat collided with and' smashed the destroyer Dragon's bows.

.BOMBAY; October2o. Col, McDonald's last, column is at Ehari,' snow- bound, after crossing the Tang Pass, where the snow in now far worse. ■....'■•■•.

BRISBANE, Oct. 20. xhe German steamer Prinz Sigismund has brought the missing boat's crew of the ship Aigburth, They landed on an island thirteen days after the ■wreck, and were kindly treated by the natives. Subsequently they went to Mundock Island, where the Chinese attended to their wants until they were sent to Frederick WilhelmsLiayen. / _ • SYDNEY, ootober 20. News has .also been received that all the murderers of the missionaries except one have been captured and punished. .