CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8858, 28 April 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(bx Eleotbjo Telegbaph—Copyright.) LPeb Pbess Association.) LISBON, April 27. TAvelve thousand are homeless as the result of the earthquake in Portugal. ' . Received April 28, 8,35 a.m. ROME, April 27. A German princess Avas robbed of £40,000 Avorth of jeAA'els in the train between San Remo and Lugano. Kiiig EdAvard, Queen Alexandra, Princess Victoria, and the Empress DoAvager of Russia toured round thecrater of Etna. LONDON, April 27. The Council of-the Baptist Church proposes to raise funds, of £100,000 to improA'e ministers' stipends. Wilbur Wright is demonstrating the possibility of dispensing Avith starting rails for his He raised one aeroplane 200 feet from the bare ground. He comes to England on Wednesday. Saint Saen's opera, "Samson and Delila," has been produced at Covent Garden. The Queen secured the withdrawal of the censor's prohibition against the opera, Avhich Avas made because of the Biblical theme. NEW YORK, April 27. A Avorkman fell from the top of a skyscraper, a height of 350 feet, and Avas killed instantaneously. ROME, April 27. Whilst storing petrol an explosion occurred on the Italian submarine Foca. Seven men Avere killed and thirteen Avounded. The Foca Avas sunk to prevent a further explosion. Received April 28, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, April 28.

The India Council Bill has been read a third time. Mr Hobhouse promised that poAA-er Avould be reserved to the Imperial Parliament to consider the creation of executive councils elsewhere than in Bengal. He stated the Government did not intend the fact of deportation to disqualify released men from election to the councils.