GABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9166, Issue 9165, 15 March 1910, Page 5

GABLE NEWS.

(Bx Electric Telegraph—Copyright. 1 (Per Pribß Association.) Received March 15, 8.40 a.m. PARIS, March 14. The French Senate has decided that only wage-earners receiving less than £120 per annum shall be eligible for pensions. The Government had proposed to make the limit £160. A Reuter's. telegram states that it is one Martin Gautier, not Martin, the assistant of Duez, who has been arrested. He had a. luxurious suite of rooms in a deserted Parisian convent, where an orgie was held nightly till the neighbours complained. Gautier kept five separate establishments in the city under assumed names. LONDON, March 14. The police have stopped the weekly whist drives which it was the custom to hold in the city restaurants on Saturday nights. : Hundreds of players were disappointed last Saturday. CALCUTTA, March 14. The Dalai Lama (head of the Buddhist faith, now a fugitive from Thibet) has arrived at Calcutta. Ho was driven to Hastings House in the Vice-regal carriage, the_ Viceroy's aides attending him. Received March 15, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, March 14. China's interference in Thibet is due to the Dalai Lama sending envoys to St. Petersburg. The Chinese Government proposes to separate the ecclesiastical and political functions at Lhassa and deprive the Pontificate of the latter. Mr Middleton, on behalf of the Moderates, proposed to hold a conference with the Progressives with the object of ridding the London County Council of party government. The Progressives have declined to hold a conference, and the Moderates idecided to select all the aldermen required (ten).

The Naval Estimates arc expected to provide employment for 200,000 men for two years. Two thousand extra men are engaged at Poplar broadening and lengthening the slip for the accommodation of Dreadnougnts, and another thousand will be engaged after the let of April. Both parties at Canterbury offer to re-elect Mr Hennilcer Heaton unopposed if he will re-consider his decision to retire from politics. ST. PETERSBURG, March 14. Fourteen convicts, while travelling in a wagon attached to a mail train at Moghileov. extinguished the lights and attacked the warders while the train was in motion. Three warders and eleven convicts were killed or wounded.