CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9742, 6 March 1914, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Pbebs Association.) LONDON. March 5. Owing to flip exclusion of frozen mutton from tiii" Army contracts, the Hon. T. Mackenzie has offered to' demonstrate to tlnj War Office the suitability or New Zealand iiiiuton as 'an Army ration. At the irial of Goulds for espionage, Mr Bodkin --tatcd that an official chart ot Spithead and a drawing relating to the engineroom arrangements of a battleship, also a gunnery book, were found in Goulds' posM ■ -! < i 11. (TlMEri AM) SYDNEY SUM SERVICES.) LONDON, Marelt 4. in the House of Lords. Lord Lucasstatec thai ih' 1 piesent; i .stablishment of (ho regular army is 10.547 officers. 233.21G non coniiiii.-.-ioncd ofjicers and men, spe< ial r« ■ serve 73,714. and territorials 312,400. I'l'uiLri and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON. March 4. A young woman named Juiia Decies has been ,-entenced to seven years' tor woundj'ij wiih murderous intent Basil PifTard, ol independent means. They lived t<>L'e'her ai a West End llai for years, and '•'■ turning from supper itie wonnn -in Pitt'ard while in bed, permanently injuring li •-' eye. because he stated he might go to Paris with another woman. ' (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON. March 5. A waiter ami .a clerk in a res tan rani u1 Soho have been sentenced to nine nmiith for theft. It is Mated that when arrested seven other waiters stampeded, not wail iii.Lf to receive their wages. The restaurun. takings since have increased £SO weekK. ST. PETERSBURG, March 5.' Ihe Mini-ter ol Fi ii.ee in a slatemen (i-\|,M', s thai the.Gi i man newspaper alarm i>t rumours that Russia wil be ready fm j war in 1917 caused extreme eonstcrnatioi o'i li::- [imirse. The rumours are absolutely devoid of Ijjimdalion. VANCOVVER, March 4. Tii» leading athletic clubs on the Pacifi' '•'oast were represented al Arthur C'avill' i mend. The brothers were, unable to at tend, bit! tlie funeral arrangements wen eerritd om by college students, who wen former pupils of Cavil!! ATHENS, March 5. Prince William of Wied arrive- m |)u razzo en Saturday. All the districts at E! ba-siti. a- well ;'- the Mussulman villagi <'i Spatlia, have declared again*i a ('hris tian Prince. (■ rear unrest prev n'ls j SYDNEY. March 5. I Mr- Ki.-ra- Kerr, resident of Auckland j v.lm with her son was staying ai Darling j lm st._ dii <1 in the hospital from ihe effect* iof j ui-un. Deceased, v hose husband is u l'ali"ni in Auckland hospital, has been (lepresi (1 for Mime mouths, and was found !•'.'! Frit lav last m the eoiidition necessitat I im-C lier ij moval to a hospital. j A priva: ■ cal ie from London announce* ; the death of Mr David Anders<in. hit* i >reiier;r! manager of the (Irient ('ompanv of Australia. ! MELP.OIRNE, March 5. Prnfpfov Mason sod £IO.OOO 6wouldsnlr» all the financial problems of the Mawson j expedition. I)i spit-- this need ihe ('mnmon- : wealth's jrraiu i>' £SOOO had helped In j smooth ihe fiiiaiK ial difiicuhics. Ile ex ! pecis io !•' ali--r> larire suns bv the rale of ; pictures, as well as Dr. Mawson's boat. So far ti. re was no occaM-m to .be othm-wis* than ('leer; il n-gardimr the quesljun of money . SIVA. March 5. At P.a. o„ Eebruprv 25. an Indian, using n cam- k. iie. badh dasiied a coolie woman, who tlii d it a !'( w hours. The munlcer was a ve-ied. PLDA PEST. Ma-el, 5. As the )•. Mih of the trial uineiv-four accused, ue- lv 11 :--re :d.:, Ruih.'nians. charged wirh havimr utr red scili ions statements against the Kmperor Franz and the d\ nasty, Father Alexius. ~| Moum A:h<is. w ho.-i real name is Alex- •' ider Kabdvuk. !■:.-■ b-t u senn need to 4J, imp:i-Miiment. 39 others from 1 to ■j ye;ir>. and tbo remainder were acquitted. I; our ot ,!:-!;i i.j-' now suffering from religious madi -. 1 lundreds of thousand'. "' 1» ' '-- .ai d pamnhleis have been citvu- . 'V'd. mcil irnr | , iwbellion. with a view io joining in w irh liu-n. LONDON. March 5 The Kmpi.-e I.eairue ha« rc-sohed >•■ fav">'" <>l an Kmpir.- trade ir.ark. The I lon. T. Mack nzie s ii'.i.»rteil the motion.