CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9182, 5 April 1910, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electbic Telegbaph—Copyright.) (Pee Pbess Association.) Received April 5, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, April 4. Mr Thomas Law, Secretary of the Free Church Council, was found dead in tho sea at Brighton. He had been suffering from neurasthenia lately. Mr W. T. Stead states that the new Doremus cotton gin is capable of saving £50,000,000 sterling annually in the process of separating the cotton from tho seed. A European company is being formed with a capital of £2,000,000 sterling. CAIRO, April 4. Tho Somali Mullah has slaughtered 800 of the friendly native troops and captured a quantity of stock. The friendlies are fleeing to the coast. Received April 5, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, April /4. There is the direst poverty in hundreds of homes in Northumberland, tho result of a three months' strike. Many small tradesmen are ruined. A sum of £60,000 has already been distributed in relief pay. ' The Board of Trade enquiry failed to discover the real cause of the disappearance of the 6hip Australian, which left Muzatland for Sydney in 1908. ST. PETERSBURG. April 4. The Duma voted money for tho construction of a fleet of airships. A sum of £2500 will bo given as prizes for the best designs. BERLIN, April 4. Ethorgrams were continuously maintained between Berlin and a steamer until tho lattct arrived at the Cameroons in Africa. VIENNA, April 4. The Croatian Supremo Court annulled tho sentences on 53 persons tried at Agrarn for high treason on the ground that the evidcncc was insufficient to justify the charges.