LATE CABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1867, 11 March 1913, Page 5

LATE CABLES.

POPE'S ILLNESS. Press Aesn—By Telegraph—Copyright Received 11.45 p.m. Rome, March 10. His sisters and a niece have visited the Pope. A medical bulletin states he is suffering from simple bronchial affections, and needs watching owing to his age. The Pope has suspended audiences. EMPRESS SET FREE. Empress Taihe, King Menelik's consort, has been released after she had been iuterred in the palace for three years. MANY PRISONERS FREED. St. Petersburg, March 10. Five hundred and thirty-three prisoners have been released from Odessa, and the sentences on 840 others are reduced r nder an Imperial amnesty. THE PERSIAN AFFAIR.

Teheran, March 10.

It is believed that the attack upon M. Constant was due to personal animosity on the part of a dismissed servant. BICYCLE THIEVES.

Paris, March 10

The police arrested a gang of seven bicycle and motor thieves operating for the past two years. All were youths, the leader being nineteen years of age.

GOOD NEWS FOR INDIA. Delhi, March 10. It is reported that extensive deposits of iron, gold, sopper, and coal were found on an estate of the late Prince Mahmed Bukteur Shah, situated 150 miles from Calcutta. GUNS ON AIRCRAFT. London, March 10.

Owing to successful Aldershot tests of a machine gun fitted to a biplane, the fleet of biplanes is being similarly equipped. Rapid fire at an altitude of one thousand feet did not affect its stability.