LATE CABLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10572, 13 February 1913, Page 5

LATE CABLES.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, February 11. The Perseus’s cutter, cabled on the 21 st, has been officially declared lost.

February 11. James Patten, at New York, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with restraint of trade. He was lined £BOO, Which was paid immediately. Received February 12, 1 p.m. London, February 12.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie discussed with the Port of London Authority the wliole question of dock accommodation and harbour facilities which, owing to its peculiar trade, is not so beneficial to New Zealand as to the Argentine. Lord Devonport explained the Authority’s improvements to the sorting sheds at Albert Docks on which it was expending £2110,000. Sir George Reid is better, but still confined to his room.

The horse named High Jumper, winner of prizes at Olympia, has been sold for 1450 guineas. The coffins of King Canute’s twin children drowned in Whitlesea Mere, have been found in the Monastic Cemetery at Peterborough.