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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 5 March 1914, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electbic Telegraph—Cofybight ) (Peb Pbess Association.) NAVAL SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES PASSED. LONDON, March 4. Jhe Supplementary Naval Estimates have been passed by the House of Commons.

A GERMAN COMPLAINT. BERLIN, March 4. Count von Reventlow accuses the British Admiralty of systematically understating the size of its capital ships and adds that the German navy has always followed approximately the British displacement and would gladly refrain from further increases or would make reductions if the British Admiralty set a real and not a paper example. JAPANESE NAVAL AFFAIRS. TOKIO, Marcli 4. Commander Suzuki, chief ordnance instructor in the naval college, has been dismissed from the service and arrested in connection with the Japanese naval scandals. Count Saito opposes the Upper House's proposal to reduce the naval vote by £7,000,000 as it would seriously hamper the defences. CAPTAINS HEAVILY FINED. Received March 4, 8.40 p m SYDNEY, March" 4. Fines totalling £II,OOO have been paid by eight captains of oversea ves> sels lor allowing prohibited immigrants to enter the Commonwealth. NO CESSION OR EXCHANGE. LONDON, March 4. Hon. L. Harcourt, in reply to a question in the Commons, denied that there were .any negotiations with Germany regarding the cession or exchange of British East Africa or Uganda. A VALUABLE ORE. (Times and Sydney Sun Services ) LONDON, March 4. The greatest secrecy is being maintained over the discovery of a method of preserving cordite from deterioration in hot climates. The treatment is based on molybdenum. In view of their cordite losses the French authorities are enquiring as to deposits of molybdenum in Australia. Within a month the price of ore has risen from 75s to 110s and supplies are unobtainable. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Received March 5, 9.30 a,m ST. PETERSBURG, March 4. The foreman of the shrapnel tube section at Pautiloff works, actuated by vengeance for a private grievance, killed captain Nonstahl, director of the section, with a crowbar and then suicided by jumping into the electrical machinery. ASSISTING ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. Received March 5, 10.40 a m LONDON, March 4. The Government is granting Sir Ernest ShackJeton £SOOO in 1914 and £SOOO in 1915. MONEY LENDERS BILL. Received March 5, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, March 4. In the House of Lords, Lord Newton's Money Lenders Bill was read a third time. MAORI LOSES RACE WINNINGS. Received March 5, 10.0 a.m. SYDNEY, March 5. Albert Papakura, son of Maggie, the New Zealand guide, was knocked down in the darkness in a street at Penrith. On recovering consciousness he discovered that he had been robbed of £2O, race winnings. SUNDAY TRAMS. Received March 5, 10.0 a.m. SYDNEY, March 5. As statistics showed that forty thousand persons availed themselves of the recently-afforded opportunity of train travelling during church hours on Sunday night, the Commissioners have turned down the protest by the Evangelical Council against the same. REECE INCREASES HIS LEAD. Received March 5, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, March 4. In the first heat of the billiard championship, Reece has scored 3751 and Gray 2530. The scoring is slow. Received March 5, 1.15 p.m. LONDON, March 4. Reece has reached 4501 to Gray's 2877. The latter was outplayed, and failed to register a three-figure break.