CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8794, 9 February 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

,'Bx Electric Telegraph—Copyright.l "(Per Press Association.) PARIS, February 8. The French Minister for Marine intends to ask for the immediate commencement of two battleships. Received February 9, 8 a.m. BERLIN, Feb. 8. • On the occasion of the Princess von Bulow's birthday, the Kaiser, for the first time since the events of November, visited Prince von Billow, remaining for a considerable time at the Chancellor's palace. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 8. Baron Frederick, formerly Governor of Nijni-Novgorod, was tried before the Senate, dismissed from the Government service and fined 10,000 roubles, or a year's imprisonment, for negligence and corruption in connection with the Gourka grain scandals in 1907. [Gourka was a Russian Minister, and a son of the famous Russian general of that name. He was convicted of corruption by appropriating to his own use supplies and funds intended for famine-stricken districts.] BERLIN, Feb. 8. The ice floes at Dresden are melting, and all danger is past. Some of the western streams are abating. LONDON, Feb. 8. The Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, in a letter to his supporters dealing with the re-assembling of Parliament, declares that matters will immediately arise of grave and urgent importance. Received February 9. 8.35 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 8. The King and Queen have started for Berlin. A fire in a lodging-house at Manchester resulted in nine of the, occupants being suffocated and many injured. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Harry Bauman got five years' imprisonment at Chicago for frauds. Ho swindled an American woman of £100,000. The detectives stated that he had 50 wives in Europe and America. Received February 9, 8.58 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 8. Mr Richard Bell, the railwaymen's secretary, is disappointed at Sir Edward Fry's award. He urges the railwaymen to organise their finances in order to present insistent demands in 1913. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 9. Turkey proposes to hand Russia two millions besides Bulgaria's five millions in order to cancel Turkey's annual payments of £315,000 in 74 years. LONDON, February 9. Four Basuto chiefs are the guests of the Colonial Office, and intend interviewing King Edward. They resent becoming an adjunct to Orangia in the event of unification } and desire Basutoland to be a distinct unit. SANTIAGO, February 8. The German Chancellor, Baron Bodman, at Santiago, Chili, was murdered in his office. He had received threatening letters that the chancellory would be set on fire.