CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9607, 5 September 1911, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph-Copyright.) (Per Press association.) CHOLERA. .CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 4. A thousand deaths from cholera have- occurred at Chorum sinoo June. Tho population of tho neighbouring villages is almost wiped out. ICED WINE. CAIRO, Sept. 4. All the members of the Jesuit community, at Minich were prostrated through drinking iced wino, which is supposed to havo been criminally poisoned. Two persons, including tho Father Superior, died, but tho rest are recovering. FRENCH BARQUE WRECKED. ■ ■ , NOUMEA, Sept. 4." Tho French barque Rochambeau, from Glasgow to Tchio, coal laden, went ashore on the Maine reef of the ea6t coast of New Caledonia, on August 31. Sho is in a critical position, almost full of water Ono seaman was drowned, and tho remainder wero rescued by tho cruiser Korsaint. MAJOR TAYLOR COMES DOWN. Received Sopt 5, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. Major Taylor fell in the half-milo bicycle race at Ipswich and sustained concussion of tho brain, TURKISH SUCCESS IN YEMEN. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 4. Sycd Idris has boon repulsed at Ibha, Yemen, with a loss of four hundred. Tho Turkish casualties wcro a hundred and fifty.

BOY SCOUTS IN SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 4. General Baden-Powell inspected a thousand Boy Scouts from all parts of Sweden. PORTUGUESE POLITICS. Received Sept. 5, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. Sonor Cliag-as becomes Premier and Minister for tlic Interior and Senor do Vasooncellos Minister of Foreign Affairs. A FRENCH TRAGEDY. , Received Sept. 5, 10.50 a.m. PARIS, Sept. 4. The mystery surrounding tlnj assassination of Monsieur Guillotin, near Tours, has been dispelled by the confession of Mademoiselle a friend of Guillotin's wife. Tho latter confessed to Mademoisollo Laudrcau that Paul Houssard, her cousin and lover, shot her husband. Laudreau. who was oppressed by the secret, informed the police. Houssard has been arrested.

FATALITY ON A BATTLESHIP. HAGUE, Sept. 4. During the firing practice on the battleship Hertoghendrik, at Batavia, three persons were killed and twelve injured, five seriously. PORTUGUESE STRIKE OVER. LISBON, Sept. 4. Tho lightermen's and dockers' strike has ended. INCENDIARIES. Eight cork workers have been convicted of setting firo to the cork factories at Villarinho a fortnight ago.