GABLE NEWS.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copitbjght.) (Per Press Association.) Received May 27, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, May 26. Successful trials have been made by the War Office at Aldershot of a traction engine of caterpillar type. It drew a. load of eight tons and a "Long Tom gun along the road and also across loose sand., and a four foot ditch and bog. Burglars ransacked Lawrence's jeweller's shop in Cheapsido and 6tole several thousand pounds' worth of diamond rings and brooches. One hundred and thirty-two delegates represent 44 emigration societies at the Colonial Institute's Conference. The chief object is to establish a permanent standing committee whereon all societies shall be represented. Received' May 27, 9..10 a.m. CALCUTTA, May , 26.
Lodd Ha ram, editor of the native journal Swarajya, at Allahabad, was sentenced to transportation for ten years. H'e is the fourth editor of Swarajya convicted of sedition. The newspaper has now stopped publication. Received May 27. 8.45 a.m. LONDON, May 26. Mr Louis Brennan is laying 110 miles of monorail in the mountainous country in Alaska in extension of the present railway. Mr Roosevelt had a great reception from the undergraduates at Cambridge, where the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him. Owing to the mourning for the King only Mr Roosevelt, the public orator and the Vico-Chancellor were robed. , Barry's fund has reached £1036, and haa been closed. He'sails for the Zambesi on June 25. PARIS, May 26. During the first part of the French naval manoeuvres the submarines en " trusted with the 'defence of Corsica had remarkable success. They pursued 6ix battleships for three hours and were considered to ! have torpedoed four. COPENHAGEN, May 26. The impeachment of Mr Christensen, ex-Minister of Commerce, and Mr Berg in connection with the Alberti frauds has begun in the State tribunal.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9223, 27 May 1910, Page 5
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300GABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9223, 27 May 1910, Page 5
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