YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7959, 21 April 1904, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

The American five-masted schooner Georga E. Billings, bound from Adelaide to Newcastle, struck a rock in the straits and ran ashore in "Waratah Bay. Tne total wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,805,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,875,000. Atlantic shipments total 21,000 and Pacific 20,000.

Mr Carnegie's benefactions exceed twenty millions sterling. Some American papers, commenting on the hero fund, twits Mr Carnegie with having built a fortune on the sufferings of thousands of investors in the Steel Trust. While destroying Thibetan gunpowder abandoned at Guru and Gyangtse, four Sepoys were killed and fifteen injured. British and German post officers are submitting Donald Murphy's printing telegraphy system to exhaustive practical tests between London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

New Zealand is issuing .£IOO,OOO four-year treasury bonds nt four per cent, with a minimum of 99, with the option of conversion into three per cents at 106 until April, 1906.

St. Vincent's Hospital, Indianopolifi, has been destroyed by firo. Ono hundred and twenty-one patients wero safely removed. Two surgeons were operating on a critical case when they wero informed of the progress of the fire. They finished their operation and escorted the patient away. Mr Arnold Fovster states that since the Mullah was expelled from the Somaliland protectorate he is practically without followers. Military operations bave now been discontinued and the force reduced.