GABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9138, Issue 9138, 10 February 1910, Page 5

GABLE NEWS.

(Bx Electbic Telegraph—Copyright./ (rjsß Press association.) ROME, Feb. 9. A priest at Villa Franca, near Verona, was celebrating mass when he fell unconscious on the altar steps. Tho wine had been poisoned by sulphuric acid. The crime is attributed to the Socialists, between whom and the Catholics there is a bitter feud. LONDON, Feb. 9. The Australian destroyer, the Parramatta, was safely launched. Brisk preparations are being made for the London County Council elections in March. A great struggle is foreshadowed. Received February 10, 8.45 a.m. PARIS, Feb: 9. Favrier has been arrested at Nancy on a charge of murdering a bank cashier at Lille. LONDON, Feb. 9. During the coming season the marriage of Viscount Maidstone and Margaretta, daughter of Anthony Drexel, the American banker, will take place. The late Louis Arthur Nathan's estate has bcenj entered for probate at £57,966. The Northern Football Union has decided that finances do not warrant the sending of a team to Australia on terms less than were originally offered. A landslide of 500 tons of earth demolished three houses at West Wylam, T.yneside. Three women were killed and nine injured. The outlook for farmers in North Yorkshire is serious. Miles of land in the Darwent Valley arc inundated Mr Taverner has chosen a dozen respectable lads from the nominations at the Stratford emigration office for a year's training on the Victorian farms. Their ages are 16 and 18, and they are chiefly shopboys and factory hands. PARIS, Feb. 9. A French Jack-fhe-Ripper is terrorising Paris. Six men and been murderously attacked with a 'big knife. The assailant is supposed to be a madman. Ho does not attempt to rob his victims. The Hamburg-American Shipping Company's profits in 1909 were £1,600,000. NEW YORK. Feb. 9. Commander Peary received 10,000 dollars in public subscriptions. He declared he would deposit it towards "the Antarctic race with our British cousins, than whom there are no finer foemen in the world." The Roosevelt will be used with Commander Peary's personnel, but he himself will not go with the expedition. PARIS, Feb. 9. The Marne and Seine are still rising steadily.