CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9507, 6 May 1911, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric- Telegraph-Copyright.) (Per Press Ahrootation.) INVINCIBLE NOT INJURED. Received May 6, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, May 5. . The officials at Portsmouth deny that the Invincible has been badly strained, and say she was merely taken from the dock as a precaution because some of the blocks were badly adjusted. She has been redocked, and work is proceeding. GAMEKEEPER MURDERED. Thomas Pilkingtori, was found dead on his Waskefield estate with a gunshot wound on his body, and with his head badly cut. It is supposed the deed was committed by poachers, THE PLAGUE. HAGUE, May 5. It is officially announced that Sourabayd is plague-infected. THE CAMORRISTS. ROME, May 5. De Genoros, brother of one of tho Camorrists being sued at Viterbo, rushed at and struck Abbatemaggio, the informer, in tho face.. A terrific uproar ensued, and the assailant was ejected from the Court. YOUNG TURKS AT VARIANCE. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 5. Dissensions in the Yoiing_ Turk party have led to a Ministerial cricis. Mohammed Shevket has threatened a dictatorship unless the differences are composed. It is understood that he favours a dissolution. .

ACQUITTED. CALCUTTA, May 5.

On tho grounds that identification was doubtful, and the records have been tampered with, the High Court acquitted two Bengalis charged with shooting Inspector Ghase, who was a witness hi the Docca Conspiracy case. RATIFICATION. TOKIO, May 5. Ratification of the Anglo-Japanese treaty have been exchanged. SIR W. LAURIER GOES TO THE CORONATION.. OTTAWA, May 5. Sir Wilfrid Laurier. agrees to the proposal by tho Conservatives thas Palliament shall adjourn in Juno and resume at the end of' July. : ANOTHER MINE TRAGEDY. NEW YORK, May 5. A mine at Ncgannee, Michigan, is on fire. ; Five are known to bo dead end the rest are entrapped.

HISTORIC INCIDENT RECALLED. NEW YORK, May 5. . Emulating the Boston Harbour Tea Party of 1773 a mob at Cordova, Alaska, enraged at the non-settlement of th» Alaskan coal lands cases by the Washing, ton legal authorities, threw hundreds of tons of Canadian coal into the harbour, declaring that whilo millions of tons of Alaskan were unmined foreign coal was not going to'bo used. Tho Alaska Steamship Company own 6 the coal and imported it.