CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9165, Issue 9164, 14 March 1910, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) Received March 14, 8.45 a.m.

LONDON, March 13.

Mr Stewart, Public Trustee, reports that tho Public Trust Department is self-supporting. The business dealt with since tho establishment of the office amounts to 38£ millions.

Frederick William Horner, ex-M.P. for North Lambeth, Has been convicted on a charge of fcrging and uttering telegrams to the Daily Mail, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment in the eccond division. Capt Scott has bought at Christiania sixty sledges for uso in his Polar expedition and fifty pairs of the know as ski. OTTAWA, March 13. Thi? Canadian Parliament by US to 78 votes finally accepted Sir Wilfrid Laurier'e naval policy. Received March 14, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, March 13. The London University authorities arc convening a Congress of Universities of the Empire in London in 1912. Tho Durham miners' delegates have decided to endeavour to obtain alterations in the eight-hours' agreement in preference to its abolition. Obituary.—Mr James Connor, M.P. A Renter telegram from Allahabad states that Count Demandre has bought tweivo first-class Australian polo ponies, which he intends to take to England. The Hon. McKenna states that the Australian and New Zealand Indefatigables will bo paid for by those Dominions and hence could not be included in tho estimates for new construction. Mr Churchill, replying to Mr McArthur, said that the question of allowing ecclesiastical processions in the streets adjaccnt to Westminster Cathedral on the occasion of the consecration of the building next June would receive timely and careful consideration. Mr Greenwood has given notice of a Bill to amend the law of murder and enable verdicts to be returned of guilty in the first degree or the second degree. BERLIN, March 13. At a mass meeting tho workmen in tho Kiel dockyards demanded tho introduction of short time in preference to the dismissal of a large number as announced by the authorities. M. Greiger, Argentine Consul at Munich, was killed by his motor-car crashing into a tree. His wife, the Paraguayan Consul and the chauffeur were all severely injured. NEW YORK, March 13. Mr Piorpont Morgan has gircn £75.000 for Karl Marsel's famous collection of watches and clocks. Reoeivcd March 14. 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, March 13. Enquiry at Washington, instituted by tho Government, shows that since 1897 the Tobacco Trust has absorbed or crushed 163 out of 253 independent factories.