CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9332, 5 October 1910, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

!(Bx Electbio Telegbaph—Copybight.) (Peb.Pbebs Association.) , YELLOW FEVER IN AFRICA., LONDON, Oct. 4. Sir Rupert Boyce, Professor of Pathology in the Liverpool University,, has discovered that yellow fever is the epidemic peculiar to West Africa. Hitherto it wa6 mistaken for malaria. He declared it would be easy to rid the country of the mosquito stegomyia canopius by. means of inexpensive drainage. A TERCENTENARY. The British and ■ Foreign Bible Society has resolved to promote the general observance of the tercentenary of the King James Bible, published in 1611. THE LLOYD-GEORGE BUDGET. Mr Lloyd-George has called a conference of building co-operative societies, owing to the apprehension of the work-ing-class property-owners that the Budget taxation will interfere with their pertiesSHIPPING. Received Oct. 5, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 4. Departures.—Ruapehu for Wellington; Eibing for Hawke's Bay - and. Auckland. INCUMBENCIES ADVOCATED. Lord Robert Cecil, at St. Alban'e, advocated that incumbents should be instituted, their livings to be for a period of five to ten years. Church Councils ought to be established in every parish with power to recommend the Bishop to lenew or not renew the incumbency. CANADA AND THE WEST INDIES. OTTAWA, Oct. 4. It is reported the Governor-General's visit to the West Indies next year is in connection with the recent Royal Commission's report on Canada's trade with the Islands. THE SCOTSMAN ON THE LAND BILL. LONDON, Oct, 4. The newspaper Scotsman states that the full text of Mr Fisher's Land- Bill has not removed the belief that it will injuriously affect the Commonwealth s stability and credit. British capital cannot be expected to flow freely when fundi are under a special burden. The Bill will render droughts a heavier burden than before. The big squatter may be able to hold out, but the little squatter will be ruined. COTTON BOOMING. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. A new record for the season has been made' in cotton. At New York the closing rates were twenty to thirty points above Saturday's. The English strike does not affect the market.

AMERICAN TRAIN ROBBERY. Received' Oct. 5, 9.15 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Passengers in a Pullman car bound westward on the Rock Island line were robbed at Rosemont of 7000 dollars in cash, and drafts and jewels. PRISON REFORM. Received Oct. 5, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 4. The report of the Commissioners on Prisons insists on tha necessity of longer sentences than a year being given to the prisoners under the Borstal sytem. A year is useless for the reclamation of bad characters. TRAGEDY IN LISBON. LISBON, Oct. 4. Lieut. Rebello killed Dr. Bombardo with a revolver shot at Lisbon. The murdered man was a celebrated Alienist and leader of the Liberal campaign against the Clericals. MEAT FAMINE IN ROME. ROME, Oct. 4. Veal is selling at 2s per lb in Rome and beef at 9d to Is 6d. A cold store has been erected at Genoa with a view to obtaining supplies from the Argentine. The municipality of Bologna is arranging to sell frozen beef, and Rome is likely to follow suit. CHOLERA AT NAPLES. Twenty-seven fresh cases of cholera are reported in the Naples district, and there are nine deaths. A HUGE METEOR. PRETORIA, Oct. 4. A meteor at a height of 150 miles above the earth startled Johannesburg. The light was equal to a naval searchlight, and the astronomical observers were nearly blinded. FIRE AT MONTE VIDEO. MONTE VIDEO, Oct. 4.

The new docks and Customs offices f>.t Monte Video were burned. The damage excecds £80,000. THE FLYING MEN. PARIS, Oct. 4. Tabuteau aeroplaned over the Pyrenees from San Sebastian to Biarritz. THE GERMAN RIOTS. BERLIN, Oct. 4. A great public meeting, under the auspices of the Democratic Union,passed resolutions of sympathy with the English and American journalists who were assaulted by the police. AUSTRALIAN CRUISER. • LONDON, Oct. 4. The Shipping Gazette states that an order for an Australian second-cla6S cruiser has been entrusted to the Elswick vards. FRAUD IN BUTTER. A summons was dismissed against Emile Coopman, whose brother was fined £5 for selling butter which was not Australian in Australian boxes. BIG FIRE IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. A fire in 24th 6treet, New York, swept an area of three acres. The damage is estimated to amount to £300,000. GONE OVER TO ROME. Received Oct. 5, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 4. Owing to the Bishop objecting to reservation and adoration, at the Sacrament the Vicars of St. Bartholomew and the Church of • the Annunciation at Brighton have resigned and joined the Church of Rome with one curate.