CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9452, 27 February 1911, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(By Ef,kctbio Telegbaph-Copxbight.) U'kb* i'BESB Association.) PARIS, Feb. 26. During a performance of Henry Bernnew play "Apres Moi" at'the Comedie Francaiso, a wild scene occurred as the result of anti-simitic disturbances arising from Bernstein's confession that he doserted from the French Army thirteen years ago. As the outcome of rioting twenty-six arrests were made. Bernstein has issued three challenges to duels. BERLIN, Feb. 2) The cruisers Seham and Horst, travelling 14 to 17 knots an hour, made 18 hits out. of 22 at a range of 4000 yards, with 8.2 guns, and 26 cut of 32 with 5.9 guns. _ NEW YORK, Feb. 26. Half a million yards of loose earth have slipped in the Calebra cut of the Pananu Canal. Five-hundred fishermen arc afloat on an. ice floe in the Gulf of .Finland. The Finance Committee of the Senate reported the Reciprocity Bill without recommendations. Strong opposition speeches were made by several Senators, declaring that the Seriate resented any attempt to forco it to pass the measure, In view of the opposition displayed the Bill has bcon placed on the file for consideration when the Senate so desires. This move of the Senators means that an extra session is unavoidable. VALPARAISO, Feb. 24. A train was derailed on a bridge and precipitated into a. ravine near the Braden copper' mines, in Chili. The killed and injured numbered fifty. ' • The British cruisers Kent _ and Challenger will visit Valparaiso in April to componsato for the inability of. Britain to send a representative to the Chilian contoiurv of independence celebrations. ST. PETERSBURG. Fob. 26.

A terrific explosion occurred in tho public baths. Bathers of both sexes rushed Into the corridors, and found mangled remains of an occupant of one of the bathrooms and the fragments of a bomb near by. An avalanche destroyed a school at Sibye, ' <<n the Black Sea, and twelve boys and six adults were found dead among the ruins. In connection with tho assassination of Macllarvay at tho Grosny naptha works throe of the assassins have bran arrested. A fourth has committed suicide. LONDON. Feb. 26. Renter reports two cases of cholera at Honolulu. The Australian Coronation delegates will attend tho unveiling of Queen Victoria's memorial on May 16. One post office, whilo not prohibiting transparent envelopes with internal addressee, intimates that they will be subject to delay over ordinary addressed letters, owing to greater difficulty in deciphering the addresses. The Court of Appeal overruled Justice Warrington's decision which justifies tho raihvaymen's Society in expelling Osborne

The Colonial Office announces that _Mr Andrew Carncgio has given tha African entomological research committee £IOOO yearly for three years, to send students from' the United States to study the practical application of entomology. ' Seven thousand men arc- working day and night at tho Belfast yards to finish the steamer Olympic a month earlier than intended. Fifty American millionaires intend chartering her for £120,000 to convey their wives, families and attendants to Southampton for the Coronation'. •The Duke of Bedford, at Bedford, denounced tho Veto Bill. Ho'.6aid the parties in powor wore Nationalists and Labourites, fundamentally differing from each other yet controlling the Cabinet from without. He. hoped the Lords would introduce a clause preserving the double Chamber Government intact, _ otherwise he preferred to see tho creation of 500 puppet peers. BRUSSELS, Fob. 24; A commission of experts has decided that tho fire at tho exhibition was not duo to spontaneous combustion or incendiarism, but probably to some smokers' carlessness. SYDNEY, Feb. 26. Longworih, the whtosr, covered 110 yards in 1.5. beating Hcaly's Australasian record bv two-fifths of a second. Fob. W. It is reported that the Turkish steamer Humect, carying Moslem pilgrims, has bwn burned at sea and all on board perished,