CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8769, 22 March 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

: * Per Press Association—Copyright. ' ! £S>dnet, March 21. The steamer Oolac,' "fioiii To'wnsyijlo, 1 ;broke her tail shaft in a galo oif''North 1 "Solitary Island on .Monday'night and Was picked up by tho City of Grafton next day and towed to Newcastle. Paet!-;, March 21. In the French Chamber the Minister of Marino announced that the Senate adopted .the appointment of a Parliamentary Cornniittee'to otirirrire into the Jena explosions. He' declared the officers are inclined to attribute the disaster to shout circuit, not to deeomposiliou of ammunition, and addeil that the.animunitton was overhauled in September. I'Oii'r Said, March 21. , Tho Dutch liner, Kindgani, got badly ashore at Kabra and blocked the Suez Canal for a day, bat it is now clear. BiinLiN, March 21. A strike of stevedores has rendered idle 23<t vossols at Hamburg. ■ HoßAnr, March 22. The commission appointed to inquire . into" tho condition of tho niissing steamer Centennial found that the vessel was unseaworthy, and that the surveyor's examination was not as full as it should have been. - Arrived-; last night Athenio from London. Sails for Wellington at I? ; to-day; 55.3' passengers landed and 259 are proceeding. SI'DYEY, March 22. A representative meeting at* the Town Hall endorsed the proposal .to hold an international exhibition in Sydney about 1910. Considerable opposition'was shown by a section of mantvfacturerß. Neville, a Singleton cljojVxist, has been awarded , £250 damages in a libel against the local newspapor, "Tho Budget and Singleton Advertiser," arising out of comment on plaintiff's decision as judge at the local races. Two witnesses in the case were committed for trial for perjury. Pektu, March,22. : Divers will bo employed to reach the entombed- miner in the flooded mine. Latfer -■ reports" show/ that the ' schooners Cuttysark and Eclipse and ■ton pearling luggers have , been wrecked in the storm in Exmouth Gulf on the 14th. Five Japanese were drowned. . -•'.■'■' • ' London, March 21. A bag of registered letters, with contents valued at £BO,OOO, was stolen. between New York and Paris: A man with £BOOO. in;iiis possession lias been arrested and lias confessed that j ho was connected with the robbery.