CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9135, 7 February 1910, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per. Press Association.) Received Feb. 7, 8.40 a.m. ; NEW YORK, Feb. 6. An explosion in the Ernest Colliery at Pennsylvania killed eleven men LONDON, Feb. 6. A man at ..the Meadow Colliery, in Staffordshire, pushed a; tub into a shaft under the mistaken impression that the cage .was .at the top. The man-fell with the tub a distance of 249 feet into the water, and was rescued uninjured. Received Feb. 7, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 6. The Times' Washington correspondent says the way is clear for American negotiations witK France and Canada. Anything in the shape of a tariff war with Canada would probably lose the Republicans nearly every seat in the Northern States at the next elections.

Received Feb..7. .10.45 a.m. BERLIN, Feb. 6. The Reichstag* has passed a Bill embodying the tariff agreement with America. .- The German cruiser Mainz attained 29 3.5 knots in a trial at Dantzig. The Tageblatt says the Kaiserin and her 'laughter visit England in the spring. LONDON, Feb. 6. The Telegraph calculates on data furnished by the statements of Messrs John Ward and Ramsay MacHonald that the cost of the Right to Work Bill will be thirty millions annually. The Chronicle's free-trade fighting fund amounts to nearly £3000. Carey Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society of British Artists, was remanded on bail at Bow Street for forging the Society's treasurer's name and embezzling £1500 in numerous sums. Prisoner is prominent in the art world, and is a grandson of John Martin, the painter. OTTAWA, Feb. 6.

The debate on the naval provision continues in the Canadian House this week. All the Conservatives except three or four from Quebec support Mr Borden. The dissentients, through Mr Monk, move an amendment for a plebiscite on the ground that the Bill alters Canada's [relations 'with the Empire.