CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8155, 3 April 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS

— (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). Per Press Association. PAIUS. April 2. M Bartbon, Minister for Public Works, conferred the Cross of the Legion of Honor on Nemy and Provost, the miners who led the survivors who were cut off, and gold medals to eleven others. He confers the decoration of the Chevalier Legion on the chief of the German salvage corps, who took part in the rescue operations, and gold medals on the rest of the corps. The explorers estimate that 150 miners lived for several days after the Courriers explosion t Received April 3, at 7.58 a.m.)

HOME, April 2. The King of Italy gave audience to Senator Hughes, a member of the Commonwealth Parliament. The King expressed great interest in the progress and development of Australia.

LONDON, April 2. The quarter's excise for Great Britain amounts to £8,810,(XX). The ; Hottentots attacked a German convoy at tlkavas, killing a lieutenant and ten troopers, and wounding four. Received April 3, at 8.45 a.m.

LONDON, April 2. In the House of Commons Sir L. Mclvor, with a view to providing compensation for sailors under the Compensation Bill, moves that a tonnage tax be imposed on all vessels using British ports. Sir Thomas Lipton has commissioned Mylne, of Glasgow, to design a yacht to race for the America Cup. (Received April 3, at 8.39 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, April 2. The troops, under threat that they would bombard the ironworks at Ra.dom, obtained the surrender of alleged murderers.

A Russian Consulate has been established at Bunderabbas, on the Persian Gulf.

BELGRADE, April 2. The position of the King of Servia is becoming very difficult. The regicides are uaing threats to secure immunity from punishment. NEW YORK, April 2. Five thousand Dowie disciples in Zion City have repudiated Dowie on the ground of extravagant living. Mrs Dowio and her son concurred in this action.