SECOND EDITION. CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9161, 10 March 1910, Page 8

SECOND EDITION. CABLE NEWS

(By Electbio Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) Received March 10, 12.25 p.m. LONDON, March 9. The American visible supply of wheat is 52,000,778 bushels. Wool is strong at opening rates and competition is more general. NEW YORK. March 9. Eighty-seven per cent of the engineers and liromen employed on the iifty railways of the West, North-west and Southwest States voted in favour of a strike for a. higher wage. The stoning of the Philadelphia cars has been resumed. A strike-breaker was wounded, whereupon the other strikebreakers riding in tho car fired their revolvers at- the crowd and then wrecked the ears. BERLIN, March 9. The Reichstag adopted the Navy estimate. In reply to the Socialists the Government declared thero was no justification for any general increase in wajres. The Imperial dockyards were flooded with workmen and private employers complained bitterly of the introduction of a. nino hour-day in tho Imperial yards. LONDON, March 9. Three Norwood burglars concealed themselves in a. residence and awaited the return of the occupier, William Taunton, aged 76. They killed the house dog and brutally assaulted Taunton. The holier was ransacked. Tho burglars were arrested. The subscriptions to Barry's expenses are now nearly £800. C'arew Martin, acting secretary to the Royal Society of British Artists, was .sentenced to nine months' in the second division for embezzlement. Members of Hie British Geographical Society interviewed deprecate Lieut. Filchner's proposed German expedition to Hie South Pole, and devoting its energy to a region where other expeditions have planned routes.