FROM THE CABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1901, 22 April 1913, Page 6

FROM THE CABLES.

i It is officially stated that there S 'were 121,919 spectators at the Asso- > ciation football final cup tie in Eng- [ land.

The Cities Town Planning Association in London entertained Hon. W. A. Watt, Sir Joseph Ward, Hon. W. A. Holman, Captain Collins, and Mr Baillieu at Letchworth. Sir Joseph Ward said New Zealand had already attempted to do by legislation what Letchworth had done by private enterprise. Dr. Etliington Smith, a famous Cambridge oarsman, has died in a tragical manner, having contracted infection when operating on a patient who had a gangrened lung. Lord Sydenham's return from India on Saturday caused many newspapers to publish appreciations of his services both in Australia and during the critical times when he was Governor of Bombay. The North German Gazette announces tiiut the political aspect of the Nancy affair has closed. The question of civil damages has been reserved.

Tom Burrows, after swinging clubs for 107 hours at Aldersliot, stopped delirious. Oxygen had twice been administered to prevent his going to sleep. Forty per cent, has been paid to reinsure the steamer Natal, in transport from Ocean Island to Europe. Fifteen men were killed in a dynamite explosion at the Pedro Miguel locks on the canal. The cause is unknown.