CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8842, 19 June 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association—Copyright., London, June 17.

The War Office is investigating; the reported disquieting delects of the steel casing of lyddite shells. Alany thousands issued are being examined. At tho final sitting of the Eed Cross Society Conference, Turkey lodged a strong objection to the Red Cross symbol and pleaded for tho substitution of the P.ed Crescent for/ relief work amongst Hussubnans. The Conference refused the request. .- At tenuis, Brookes and Miss Sutton wen tho mixed doubles championship of Kent. Lisbon, June. IS. An explosion of dynamite, attributed to tho agency of dismissed workmen, wrecked a building at Coviiha, killing 30. Received June 17, 9.47 p.m. Berlin, June IS.

Herr Harden, in the newspaper Zukunsiz, declares the insinuations that Prince £u ten berg was guilty of unnatural offences were not aimed at his moral character, bat were intended to break through the ring which a clique of mystics attempted to form round the Crown. The Prince brought the facts to the Kaiser’s knowledge, and the action of the Kaiser in banishing the incriminated persons from the Court won the approbation of the public. Sydney, June 18.

At the Quarter Sessions, Wilson, manager of the Clifton Colliery, was charged with manslaughter in connection with tho tunnel collapse on April 30th. After hearing the evidence the Judge recorded acquittal by discharging the jury. London, June 18.

At Lord Elgin’s invitation the International Colonial Conference to consider tho “sleeping, sickness” opened in London. The Lord Chamberlain has withdrawn the prohibition of the opera ‘ ‘ Mikado. ” The steamer'Medic, which j/was iu collision, has arrived at Liverpool. She has only a slight crack above the water line. The vessel has been dry docked for examination. The New Zealand bowlers beat Carlisle by 56 to 24 and Sunderland by 49 to 48. Paris, June 18. Owing to untrustworthy regiments in four disturbed provinces Government is replacing them with several better disciplined troops. Bombay, June 18. Dinanth, the editor of the newspaper Hindustan, has been arrested for sedition. Sydney, Juno 19. The sentence On Riley for the murder of Rose Arnold lias been commuted to imprisonment for life. Several of the Yarzin’s plates are buckled by the fire, but seaworthy repairs will bo effected, on reaching Hamburg. Tho coal lumpers make another appeal through the press for their fellow unionists to strike.