CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9105, 29 December 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) {Pee Press Association.) Received December 29, 8.20 a.m. MADRID, Dec. 28. A fall of rock at Barcaval overwhelmed a church and a number of dwellings, killing 26 people. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Mr Piorpont Morgan sold to a syndicate his share of the Chicago tramways, realising a million sterling. Received December 29, 8.35 a.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The bursting of a locomotive boiler at Shawnee, Oklahama, killed five men and injured 17. LONDON, Dec. 28. Postle, the Australian runner, has sailed for South Africa to compete in'several big matches. Two large and influential committees of ministers and laymen of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church have inaugurated conferences to discuss the possibility of a reunion. The International Copyright Convention at Berlin recommends that the colonies should be urged to coma into line with the Motherland to secure a uniform law throughout, the Empire. Sheldon, the deposed President of the Phoenix Insurance Co., died from ptomaine poisoning. Received December 29. 8.5 a.m. VIENNA, Dec. 28. The newspaper Tageblatt, of Vienna, reports that Princess Louise's outstanding debts in Austria total £600.000 sterling. She expects £240.000 under her father's will and an additional £320.000 if a pending lawsuit proves successful ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 28.

The new Russian steel industry has secured its first order from abroad, the Obukolf works supplying an English purchaser with 30.000 tons of steel. The National Defencc Committee of the Duma voted n crcdit of £150,000 sterling to pay damages awarded to the British shipowners under the judgments of Prize Courts in connection with the Russo-Japanese war. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The American Ice Company was fined £1000 sterling for attempting to secure a monopoly of the production and sale of ice contrary to the Donnelly law in New York State. Many vessels went ashore in the gale. A schooner foundered and twelve lives were lost off Boston. Fifteen hundred people are homeless at Chelsea, Massachusetts, owing to a tidal wave. LONDON. Dec. 28. The Times' New York correspondent ideclarcs the Federal law against interState monopolies is powerless against monoplies operating within the bounds of a single State. Hence the necessity of complementary State legislation, wherever requisite to assist Congress. Lord Ashton opened the Lancaster municipal buildings, which arc his gift and cost £150.000.