CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8539, 20 March 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Teleeraoh —Copyright.) Per Press Association. (Received March 20th, 8.39 a.m.) LONDON, March 19. A fresh ballot of the engineers in North-East England, by 4356 to 3693, rejected the proposed settlement, and will resist a reduction in wages and also arbitration. _ Mr John Burns informed Sir F. Channing that after selling the produce and reckoning the relief given to dependents, the weekly cost per man aft the labour colony at Ilollesley Bay was 30s to 425, compared with the local wage .rate of agricultural labourers of 17s. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman shows a slight improvement in health. He passed a good night and is .comfortable. The Worcester Echo has announced that Earl Dudley will succeed Lord Northcotc as Governor-General of the Co muiomv e a Ith.

MADRID. March 19. Felix Moclina, an Anarchist shoemaker, has been arrested at- Seville for secretly murdering 18 out of his 22 children in their infancy. The crimes are spread over twenty years. (Received' March 20th, 3.56 a.m.) LONDON, March 19. The Associated Chambers of Commerce unanimously resolved that the legislation passed by Australia and other colonies affecting British ships owned in the United Kingdom should not. excepting in the coastal trade, impose restrictions beyond those of the Imperial Merchant Shipping Act. A caller induced a. cashier in the Southampton branch of Lloyd's Bank to go into the street to speak to the occupant of p. cab. who was said to bo suffering from gout.. Meanwhile the caller decamped with a thousand pound notes and some cash. The occupant of the cab likewise disappeared.