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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9417, 13 April 1909, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association. -By Electric Telegraph,— Copyright. Rome, April 12. : Signor Tittoni and Prince Balov met ug Venice. April 12~ The Khyher Pass has been temporarily closed to caravan traffic owing to friction with the Afghan frontier officials. World-wide congratulations, including many from Australia, have' reached General Booth on his 80tE birthday. ■ Mr Andrew Carnegie has given Hamilton College, New York State, where Senator Boot was educated, £400,000 to commemorate Mr Root’s services to the cause of international peace.

A madman, armed ' with a rifle, barricaded a cottage at St. Blazey, Cornwall, and wounded four of the besiegers and kept the police at"bay for almost a week until he was starved into surrendering. St. John’s April 11. The Governor of Newfoundland has dissolved the Legislature, and ordered an election for May Bth, the Morris Ministry iu the meantime retaining office. Suez, April 13. Ex-President Roosevelt has passed Suez for Mombasa. New York, April 11. Mrs Sampson has been acquitted. Sydney, April 13. “ The military relay bicycle race from Adelaide to Sydney was accomplished in 69 hours 35 minutes, an average of 16% miles an hour. The Minister for Home Affairs says the talk of giving a Dreadnought under the existing financial conditions is mere charlatanry, so transparent as to excite universal contempt. The Thursday Island steamer Empire reports landing a case of smallpox at Timor four days ago. The following lady tennis players have been chosen to play against New Zealand on April 23rd :—Mrs Doyle, Misses Baker, Ceilings, I. Lee, Jones and Gardiner. London, April 10. In assenting yesterday to the abrogation of Article 25 of the Treaty of Berlin (dealing with Bosnia and Herzegovina), Britain, Italy and Germany recognised the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary. Russia and France will do likewise to-day. Austria-Hungary is now hastening to 1 demobilise her troops. The cost of maintaining her military and naval force during the crisis has amounted to'£4o,ooo daily. Constantinople, April 10. There is much local anarchy in outlying parts of the JTurkishJ Empire. In the Arab provinces the state of unrest is " bad, especially in Mosul Basra. Steamers on the Tigris have been frequently fired at, and have teen compelled to stop.rnnning. Northern Albanians are restive. A battalion from Monastir (Macedonia), which was sent to suppress an outbreak at Dibra, iu Centra Albain, was compelled to retire with considerable loss. London, April 11. Obituary: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet, aged 72 years. The cause of death was pneumonia. The death is annonnoed of Marion Crawford, novelist, aged 54 years. Received April 13, 9.30 a.m. Sydney, April 13 The United States Government has called tenders for 40,000 tons of Newcastle coal for Manila. W, Eokhard at Orange r»nk skating for 50 hours covered 318% miles and broke his own world’s endurance record. Stockholm, April 11. An earthquake did considerable damage at Avik near Sandsvale, Sweden.