SATURDAY'S CABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2025, 15 September 1913, Page 7

SATURDAY'S CABLES.

CREEK TREATMENT.

OF A WEALTHY MERCHANT

SOFIA, yesterday

It is semiofficially stated that Greeks at Salonika arrested Rurudjieff, a wealthy merchant, and subjected him to terrible sufferings, including stoning. He died of his wounds.

SOUTH AFRICA.

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

CAPETOWN, yesterday

Lord Gladstone, Governor-General, has appointed a commission with Professor S. Chapman, Manchester, as chairman, to enquire into the wages, working hours, cost of living, and the cost of production at Witwatersrand and other centres as compared with other countries; also to enquire into the establishment of a minimum wage, payment of overtime and night work.

BILLIARDS.

LONDON, yesterday

Recce, in accepting the challenge, stipulates that the first match be according to Gray's terms, a second with ivories on level terms, and a third wherein the. player with the highest aggregate chooses the balls. If bonzolhie balls arc used, Gray is to concede 2000 points. The winner to receive 60 per cent of the gate, £IOO aside for each game, or £3OO on the rubber.

DEARTH OF ROYAL SERVANTS

LONDON, yesterday

There is ft dearth of servants at Buckingham Palace owing to the men in livery being required to be six feet high. Only Britishers are engaged, and the wages are the same as in other households, but those who are employed are granted pensions after the service of a minimum of 10 years.

MARIST FATHERS EXPELLED

PARIS, yesterday

Marist fathers at Toulon who have maintained a school Yor preparing boys for the navy for 50 years past, were expelled. When summoned by the concierge they refused to open the door, which the police forced.

COLOUR PREJUDICE. CAPETOWN, yesterday. The appearance of negroes as eunuchs in the play "Kismet," at Durban, aroused colour prejudices, and the producers were compelled to engage whites to fill the parts.

EMPIRE SHOOTING MATCH

LONDON, yesterday

In the Empire shooting for the Challenge Shield, Nelson College were 19th ; New Plymouth, 29th; No. 61 Company New Zealand Cadets, 39th; High School, Christchurch, 44th. In the junior competition the seventh company, High School, Christchurch, was 36th.

NEAPJNG ITS CLOSE

MEXICO, yesterday

The resignation is announced of Senor Rodrefo, Minister for Justice, owing to differences with General Huerta. It is generally believed that the Huertan regime is hearing its close.