CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9539, 16 June 1911, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(Bi Eleotbio Telegraph—C'opymaHT.l • (Pan Press Association-i THE CHAMPAGNE TROUBLE. PARIS, Juno 15. The Cabinet has abandoned the champagne area delimitation, and is introducing a Bill to prevent fraudulent adulteration and to protect old-established brands. SUPPRESSING ABSINTHE. The Senate has approved the principle) of the suppression of absinthe. MOROCCO. M. Cruppi. in the Chamber, said it rvas intended to create a Shereelian army in Morocco sullicient to restore the Sultan's authority. SWISS COMPULSORY'INSURANCE. BERNE, June 15. A Compulsory Insurance for Sickness and Accident Bill lias passed both Houses after eleven years' effort. A SEVERE STORM. VIENNA, Juno 15. A storm played havoc with shipping at Trieste. Twentv fatalities are reported, and it is feared forty fishermen have perished. FATAL BEE STINGS. BERNE, Juno 15. Twin children overturned a beehive. Tho bees attacked both, and they succumbed, HISTORIC WRECK. NEW YORK, June 15. It 16 expected the bodies of tho 6&ijors lost in tho wreck of -tho warship Maine, in Havana harbour, before the SpanishAmerican war, will be recovered in a few dayS ' A HUGE FORTUNE. Received Juno 16, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, June 15., Baron Albert Rothschild's estate in Britain has been proved at £733.027. PROGRESSING. Tho Dub of Westminster, injured recently while playing golf, is progressing. BREWERS' TRUST. LONDON, June 15. Allsop and Sons, brewers, have signed a provisional agreement for amalgamation with I rid, Coopc and Co. Negotiations to amalgamate other concerns are proceeding. AFTER THIRTY YEARS. MADRID, June 15. A cousin secured the roleaso of a wealthy spinster named Matilde Andeyrs, who has been immured in different asylums by relatives for thirty years. A celebrated alienist has certified that she isperfectly sane.