CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7942, 25 October 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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(By, Electrio Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Oct. 24. Sir Henry Norman, M.-Vfor Wolverhampton, the well-known traveller, is seriously id.

Tho King met the Queen on Sunday evemn£ at Charing Cross staliou, on her return from ber vinifc to Copenhagen, ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 24. A young work/nan threw a bomb in the offices of tb.a Sr.-feot oi Polico at Bialyatook, in Polish Ruwa, killing himself and severely wounding three of the police and two civilians.

BOMBAY, October 24. A survey party at. Bretan and the Mission escort of 140 wsre caught in a blizzard at Romba Pass. They passed an awful night. When Phari was reached sixty-nine men were snow-blind and ty/enty-five were frost-bitten. The. guide lost his way, and Captain Cowie steered the force by compass. MELBOURNE, October 24. The second Australian Catholic Congress representative of the Com-n_omv-..kh, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, has opened. Cardinal Moran presided. The Pope cabled his paternal blessing, wishing the Congress success. Archbishop Carr, in the course of an interesting inaugural address, said .they should be careful to give offence to none, while defending their own belief He gave reason, for his faith in them' and said he trusted they would not use the present occasion to insult the belief of those who differed from tbem. Referring to the creation of a new diocese and the general growth of the church in Australia, he asked: "Who then, will deny that the militant state of our church has been crowned with the most signal success,"