Cable News

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8071, 23 August 1905, Page 5

Cable News

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.)

SYDNEY, August 22. Obituary—J. P. Dowling, editor of the Sydney Mail

MELBOTJRNE, August 22. In the budget the Treasurer announced that he intended to extend the sugar bonus for another 5 years from the end of the present term on existing conditions. The excise would also be extended. It was estimated the naval and military. expenditure would be £824,000 including as a full year's contribution to the navy. The Government proposed, to spend £40,000 in new drill halls and rifle ranges. By the next year the land forces would be placed on a complete war footing. When Australia was willing to pay she' should be given a voice in Imperial defence affairs.

LONDON, August 22. The Lancashire cotton strike has been averted, and an effort is being made to secure permanent regulation of wages in accordance with the state of trade.

Obituary.—Alfred Watcrhouse, Academician.

[Deceased was born at Liverpool in 1830, and became a Royal Academician ■liTISSS.' fe&TKedt; alii^ his works being the Manchester Town Hall and the new Natural History Museum at South Kensington.] CARACAS, Aitgust 22. Venezuela has ordered in Europe five million sterling worth of torpedoes, guns and ammunition.

(Received August 23, 8.20 a.m.) PARIS, August 22. Gallay, a clerk in the Comptoir Descompte, Paris, has absconded, taking £100,000. He left Havre aboard his own yacht.

. SOFIA, August 22. A mixe.l band of Turks and Greeks, all in Turkish uniform, murdered seventeen Bulgarians and kidnapped four at Klaiderpp, near Fiorina.

BERLJN, August 22. Since January the Berlin, authorities have allowed the Salvationists to march the streets. Twenty thousand attended a meeting at Templchofer Parade Ground. (Received Aug. 23 at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON. August 22. For widening Piccadilly, near St. James street, the London County Council paid £34 per square foot.

PAEIS, August 22. M. Santos Dumont made a successful trial of a new airship at Townsville. It carries a screw in front and is thus drawn by the motor instead of being driven. It manoeuvered with facility both with and against the wind.

BOMBAY, August 22. The appointment of Lord Minto as Governor-General War was received quietly in India. It is regarded as being almost non-political.

LONDON, August 22. The Times' correspondent at Capetown reports that the Supreme Court upholds the contention of the Income Tax Commissioner that the De Beers mine is liable for income tax on the profits made by a London syndicate of s diamond buyers.