Cable News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8123, 21 October 1905, Page 5

Cable News.

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

MADRID, Oct. 20. The brigands who captured Captain Crowther and Lieut. Hat ton demand a large indemnity and the appointment of their chief Yaliente to the Governorship of the frontier of Ceuta, besides the release of Valiente the brigand's brother. WASHINGTON, October 20.

President Roosevelt, speaking at Raleigh, opposed State ownership of the railways, and favored the Government exercising supervisory and regulatory rights and securing fair and just treatment to all shippers. [The private ownership of the United States railways has been the principal factor in building up the trusts. Both the Standard Oil Trust and the Beef Trust owe their existence to the fact that they were able to get concessions in. freight from the railway companies. They prevented their competitors from participating iv the reductions and thus had an advantage over their rivals, which enabled them to undersell and crush out opposition.]

(..Received Oct. 21, at 9.6 a.m.) LONDON, October 20.

The Prince of Wales has ordered the careful observance of the Sabbath during his tour in India. When travelling the train will stop during chiuVn hours.

The Parisian municipal representatives inspected the London County Council's workmens' hotel at Deptford, and partook of. an excellent sixpenny luncheon. There is no such institution in Paris.

One hundred and sixty-five accidents, involving G-i deaths, have oeeunvu in the Alps during the present touring season.

MOROCCO, October 20,

Bobbers stole the despatches from the French and German couriers between Fez and Taugiers.