CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8603, 9 June 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Elpctrin TeleerraDh— Cooyright.) Per Press Association. Received June 9. 8.8 a.m. LONDON, June 8. A collection of 700 Australian animals, reptiles and birds intended for exhibition in England has arrived safelv. The Times applauds the success 'of the shipment and regrets tho absence of specimens of the platypus, Tasmauiaii wolf, lyrebird and frilled

Eari Meath states that 121 Mayors, 14.000 elementary schools and 2 ; V million scholars 'celebrated Empire Dav in Britain. Tli/-' Board of Trade returns for May show that imports decreased by £8,;i44.418, exports £5,855,671, and re-exports £2.020,112. The Times has withdrawn its appeal in ibe Murray libel case. Received June' 9. 8.30 a.m. LONDON, June 8. The order lias been given to rest Signorinetta, the Derby winner. Her owner will not send her to Paris for th Grand Prix. « NEW YORK, June S. The Holland —America liner Rotterdam, gross tonnage 25,000 tons, carrying 4015 passengers and crew, built at Belfast, made a satisfactory trip to Rotterdam. Tin- Supreme Court of New York described the allowance of £15,000 to each receiver of the Knickerbocker Trust for live months' work reorganising its affairs to be a spoliation of the assets. The allowance was reduce! to £4000. CETTINGE, June 8. M. Nastic's allegations against the Servian Crown Prince are officially contradicted. The 1 Servian Minister at. Cettingo lias been withdrawn. BERLIN, June 8. Business circles in Germany blame the Government for not forestalling the reduction of the Anglo-American postage and associating itself with Britain in the matter. LONDON, June 8. One hundred and twenty German workmen are the guests of the Travel Club connected with the Browning settlement. They are spending a week in London. The Admiratly having decided that ethergrams render unnecessary carrier "pigeons which have been bred to "home'" from any direction German agents have been instructed to buy the pigeons regardless of cost. The Standard declares the Admiralty by its action effects an economy of only £400 a year, whereas the pigeons are needed on picket boats used in watchhostile harbours.