GABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9136, Issue 9136, 8 February 1910, Page 5

GABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegeaph—Copybight.) (Peb Press association.) Received Feb. 8, 8.40 a.m. CAIRO, Feb. 7. The appearance of aeroplanes at Heliopolis terrified many of the Arabs. The harem ladies in a special grandstand watched the spectacle from behind green curtains. BERNE, Feb. 7. Italy and- Switzerland are fortifying their respective entrances to the Simplpn tunnel. LONDON, Feb. 7. Router says that, disregarding a warning that blasting operations were in progress on a private road at Phoenix, Arizona, a motor-car was driven near a lighted dynamite fuse. The explosion killed the seven occupants of the car. Tho Alaska-Pacific liner Kentucky sank off Cape Hattcras through her seams opening in a storm. A wireless message brought assistance, and all on board, 45 in number, were saved. ROME, Feb. 7. The Pope cancelled 'his arrangements to „ receive Mr Fairbanks, ex-vice-pre-sident of tho United States, after a, tour of the Orient, because he had previously been received by King Emanuel, besides addressing the Methodist Church in Rome. LONDON, Feb. 7. The health, authorities have ordered the re-exportation of two shipments of Chinese, frozen pigs owing to indications of swine fever. CAIRO, Feb. 7. The Khedive has convoked the General Assembly to consider a draft of the Suez Canal Convention on the lines agreed to in November. PARIS, Feb. 7. The French Government has decided to provide small tradesmen and owners of land and houses affected by the floods with credit to enable them to 6tart afresh. A woman and young girl returned to an abandoned house at Alfortville after the flood. It immediately collapsed. The woman was killed and tho girl rescued. BERLIN, Feb. 7. The German Imperial and Prussian loans have been over-subscribed. Brazil has issued a ten million four per centum loan at 87£, intended for conversion purposes and railways. VIENNA, Feb. 7. • At the Chess Championship the eighth game was drawn. Schlechter, the challenger, wins if he draws two more games. Received February 8, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 7. Mr Bull, a Commoner, in a letter to the newspapers, says the Eight Hours Act has caused all round disappointment. The output ie limited, increasing the cost by Is to Is 6d a ton. The workers arc thoroughly dissatisfied owing to the restriction of their wage-earning capacity" and also the friction resulting from the re-arranged shifts.