CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9478, 29 March 1911, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Tei.egp.aph—Copyright.) (Pep Press Association.) AEROPLANES IN WAR. NEW YORK,' March 28. Reports from San Antonio, Texas, state that four aeroplanes had a practical test of scouting, under actual war conditions. JACK JOHNSON APPEALS. Jack Johnson is appealing against his imprisonment. TO FIGHT THE STRIKERS. OTTAWA, March 28. Financial interests arc- preparing for a big fight against the, coal miners who arc on strike in Western Canada and arc endeavouring to break the union permanently. THE PEACE PROPOSALS. LONDON, March 28. The Lord Mayor is convening a meeting of citizens at the Guildhall to consider Present Taft's and Sr Edward Grey's arbitration proposals. TO ACCOMPANY THE GOVERNOR, GENERAL. LONDON, March 28. Mr Ronald Vernon, of the Colonial Oltice, will accompany Lord Denman, tho new Governor-General, to Australia. COLONIAL PREMIERS' VISIT TO IRELAND. The Lord Mayor of Dublin's announcement that the Australian and New Zealand Premiers will visit Ireland has caused great public gratification. He is inviting public subscriptions to enable a suitable reception to bo given. MUNIFICENCE. Mi6s Ewart, of Ewhurst, Surrey, has bequeathed £20,000 to a fund for scholarships for necessitous girls, at Newham College, and £IO,OOO to Somcrville College, Oxford. FALSE PRETENCES. John A. Bowron,, Sidney Bowron, and Thomas Knight (who has been twenty years in their employ), were charged at the Tower Bridge Police Court with con' spiracy to obtain £28,670 by fake pretences. THE EDWARD MEMORIAL. The Edward memorial committee has adopted Mr Bertram MacKcnnal's scheme. , BILLIARDS. The proposed match between Gray and Stevenson collapsed, AN INDIAN SENTENCE. • CALCUTTA, March 28. Mul Kherji has been sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment for attempted murder. < ITALY'S JUBILEE. ROME, March 28. King Emanuel, in a speech, delivered a panegyric on Italy as a free nation, and emphasised the liberty and independence of. the. Vactican in matters of religion, King Emanuel received most cordial congratulations from the Emperor of Germany and Austria. STRANGE TRAGEDY. Received, March 29, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, March 28.

A girl who was arrested for stealing at Matlock, Derbyshire, jumped into the rivor. A policeman followed her, but tho girl gripped him and refused to release her-hold. Both were drowned, A second policeman..repeatedly-dived into 15ft ofwater but could not succeed in rescuing the victims.