CABLE MEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9187, Issue XLI, 11 April 1910, Page 3

CABLE MEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) NEW YORK, April 9. At the sale of Mr Charles Ycrke's collection, Hals' "Portrait of a Roman" brought £2700. Two carpets from the Ardebil Mosque were sold for £12,500. SAN FRANCISCO, April 9. Lord Kitchener is the guest of Admiral Eberle at San Francisco. The visitor was toasted as the greatest living general to-day. Lord Kitchener did not attend the military parade, as he was anxious to avoid a public reception and tho importunities-of interviewers. ' . OTTAWA, April 9. After a two-days' debate the Legislative Assembly of Ottawa defeated by 78 to 77 a Bill for making bookmaking illegal. LONDON, April 9. The Federation'of Master Cotton Spinners at. Manchester has declared in favour of a 5 per cent, reduction in wages. A crisis is, feared, ' though there is to be a conference with the operatives' organisation. 1 PARIS, April 9. The French Courts have acquitted Augustine Recard, a young woman, for killing her , husband. She fired eighteen shots, twice re-loading her revolver. The defence was that he was a dissolute husband and threatened to murder her and her children. Th ejurymen were moved to tears and collected 95 francs which they handed to Madame Recard.