CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8105, 9 October 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh), (Per Press Association.) Received October 9, 8.48 a.m. LONDON, October 8. While a lady was at tlie confessional in the Brompton Oratory, she directed the attention of the priest to an excited won'an in the church who was brandishing a dagger towards him. The priest leaped from the confessional box, and the woman tried to stab him. Help was forthcoming, and she was removed to the asylum. OTTAWA, October 8. The sculler Durnan has started for Australia to take part in the match with Towns for the world's championship. Received October 9, at 9 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 8. A total of £1,350,000 has been withdrawn from the Bank of England and remitted to Izart. Received October 9, 9.30 a.m. NEW YORK, October 8.Two hundred, masked men near Mobile seized two negroes who were in the sheriff's custody, charged with assaulting white women, and hanged them. LONDON, October 8. Advices from Cartagena are to the effect that the divers have recovered the locked treasure box of the emigrant steamer Sirio, which was wrecked last month with great of life. It was supposed that it contained much money and passengers' jewels, but was found to be empty. The discovery has renewed the indignation against the officers and crew. CAPETOWN, Oct. 8. .Englebrecht was lined £200 or imprisonment for a year for introducing ammunition into Basutoland