CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9185, Issue 9185, 8 April 1910, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.; Received April 8, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, April 7. Peter Barnctt was sentenced to six months at Birkenhead for stealing stores from Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Nimrod.

The eight hours' question has boon settled in Durham. The disaffected colliers arc returning , to work. The mine's of Northumberland will take a ballot c:i Monday as to whether they will resume. A telegram from Addis Abeba, AVvssinia, published here, states that the Empress' Taitu sought the protection of the British Legation, which was refused. The step taken_ by the Empress deeply wounded the pride of the Abyssinians. Sir G. Reid has accepted the freedom of the Carpenters Company. The formal presentation will shortly bo made. The Daily Chronicle considers the success of the policy of smashing the "mad Alullah" will be doubtful without the co-operation of Italy. This, however, is not forthcoming, and therefore concentration on the coast is essential. NEW YORK, April 7. Rain in the south and the re-importa-tion of cotton from Liverpool led to' the Patten corner losing £300,000 in one day in the attempt to corner the cotton market. The President declined to accede to the request of fifty business men of Pennsylvania to withdraw five millions sterling worth of Government contracts from the Bethlehem Steel Company owing to a local strike. President Roosevelt's report to the Smithsonian Institute shows that he has collected 4897 mammals, 4000 birds, 2000 reptiles, 500 fleshes, and thousands of plants, shells, crabs, and PARIS, April 7. In connection with the Duez defalcations documents have been discovered in a lady's residence showing a widespread conspiracy to secure the property of the religious orders in the provinces. BERLIN. April 7. Prince and Princess Eitcl Friederich are about to pay a visit to Jerusalem. Fifteen hundred Gorman pilgrims will also attend the consecration of the Protestant and Catholic Churches on Mount Olivet and at Zion. Received April 8, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, April 7. Mr Justice Swinfen Eady approved the Australian Joint Stock Bank reconstruction scheme. Ho stated he had some hesitation in doing so, owing to the absence of explanation why the creditors were asked to forego 2s 6d in the £ while the shareholders gratuitously received shares in the new company, but the approval of a large.proportion of the creditors had convinced him. The Morning Leader, referring to the lobby rumour that the Government does not intend to save a deadlock of the two houses by an appeal to the throne, states it would be better for the Government to break up and be reformed than for the country to be driven to another aimless dissolution. The estate of John Foster, worsted spinner, of Bradford, has been sworn at a million. COPENHAGEN, April 7. Large ironworks have been closcd.down here owing to an outbreak of meningitis. Numbers of people are under treatment, and several fatal cases have occurred in the Danish provinces. PARIS, April 7. A draft of bluejackets enabled the Calidonien, which was held up by the maritime strike, to sail.