FROM THE CABLES

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1882, 29 March 1913, Page 2

FROM THE CABLES

{ (Press Association.—By Telegraph. The British Government has decided to construct wireless stations at Singapore and Penang, independent of the proposed Imperial chain. Before the Marconi Committee, , Sir Rufus Isaacs, British Attornev- | General, testified tJiat his brother ( j j Harry's profit in selling liim ten ] thousand shares was between £BOOO y and £9OOO. a As the result of the inquest on Chung Foon, the Chinaman found sliot near Parramatta, Cecil George '' Eather has been committed for trial '• for shooting. Accused stated that Foon chased him because he asked Foon if he had taken a bird trap. He fired four shots with the idea of stopping Foon, and did not intend to •. hit him. Mrs McMichael and turee children were burned to death at Glenmaggie, Victoria, in the absence of Mci Michael, who is a farmer. The house was situated in hilly country. l " The Turakina is expected to sail k from Rio de Janierio on the 14th. - The engines are undamaged. The 11 butter in the third hold is slightly e rancid, and the cheese soft. The I wool in the first hold is much heated >jj and considerably damaged. r it Prince Vincent Wendeschgraetz, r attached to the Austrian Embassy at h Rome, committed suicide over a love h affair. 3 g Mr William Moore, the Nationalist r member for Armagh, has been suse pended for the remainder of the session for refusing to withdraw the words "disgraceful trickery" used , by him in the course of the scene in the House of Commons. The guests at the Foreign Office banquet included Prince Louis of Battenburg, Mr fAsquith, Viscount Haldane, the Marquis of Crewe and 0 other Cabinet Ministers, Mr Austen . Chamberlain, Lord Lamington, Lord Plunket, Lord Tennyson, Sir George Reid, and Hon. T. Mackenzie.