CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8137, 13 March 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) . (Per Press Association.) Received March 13, 8.49 a.m.

NEW YORK, March 12,

A total of nine hundred Moros were killed and wounded, including a number of women and children, who mingled with the rebels in their last resistance over the lip of the crater. Doctor Gregory has introduced into the lowa legislature a bill legalising the painless killing of hopeless incurables at the instance of the -patients, and also of hideously deformed or idiotic children at the instance of their next-of-kin. The deacons have assumed the administration of Zion City and Dowie's downfall is reported to be complete. A railway collision occurred at Godsend, Ohio. The carriages took fire and ten were killed and fifteen were injured, some fatally. (Received March 13, at 9.6 a.m). LONDON. March 12. Mr John Ward, a Commoner, speakat Woolwich, warned the Government that the Labourites would accept the statement that there were financial obstacles in the payment of members and old age pensions for one session only. The Admiralty has granted Admiral Percy Scott £8000 for his gunnery inventions. Mr Agar Robertson's land tenure bill is based on the principle that tenant farmers' capital should not be liable to confiscation. It was read a second time by a majority of 253. It extends, cheapens and. simplifies the law of compensation for tenants' improvements. The Unionist press complftins that it is an attempt to initiate uuiversal dual ownership in England and Scotland. The Ehodesian settlers have petitioned Lord Selborne against the chartered De Beers Co. granting Mr Willoughby an exclusive concession of two hundred square miles of diamantiferous territory. MADRID, March 11. The Spanish Chamber allows Princess Ena a quarter of a million pesetas annually.