Cable News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8145, 20 November 1905, Page 5

Cable News.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) (Received Nov. 20. at 8.45 a m) , LONDON, Nov. 19.

Milburn's Australasian line of steamers will load at Hull, and will probsibly commence running in January NEW YORK, Nov. iy.

The road engineers at Panama have decided for a sea level canal despite the fact that a decade is necessary for its construction.

Stephen Salisbury, of Worcester, Massachusetts, died without heir and bequeathed his entire fortune of four million' sterling to oducation and charities.

BERLIN, Nov. 19,

The German torpedoer. S. 126 collided with the cruiser Undine in the Bay of Kiel. The boiler exploded and she sank. The accident occurred during a tactical night attack against the Undine, which was lightless. Thirtythree are missing. Mademoiselle Zanaiada Simoljaninoff, a beautiful and talented Russian, moving in the best circles in St. Petersburg and Berlin, has been sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment at-Leip-zig for selling documents to a foreign government. The elite of Berlin were called as witnesses.

CHRISTIANA, Nor. 19,

The Storthing has unanimously voted for the election of Prince Charles as King of Norway.

(.Received Nov. 20, at 9.7 a.m.)

PARIS, November 10

General Brugere, vice-president ot the Superior Council of War, has been placed under arrest for a fortnight for communicating to the newspapers particulars of a private interview with ~SL Etienne, Minister for War," who had smoothed over a quarrel between General Brngere and General Percin arising out of the Delation scandal. General Brugere admits the justice of the sentence.