CONDENSED CABLES AND TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10497, 19 November 1901, Page 1

CONDENSED CABLES AND TELEGRAMS.

The Sultan of Morpcco gave an audience to the Times rorrespondent. The latter describes the Sultan as being anxious to institute reform, bit his advisers obstruct. ,The Lotus Clus <>l New York-enter-tained Mr Cho.tte. The friendship of England and America was the keynote of »the gathering. Mr Choate, in his speech, said that, knowing both, he prediotcd that wy possible question . could "be harmoniously and honestly adjust*, d. Ex-Speaker Rcid said there was no country wherefor Americans ,cherished such tenderness as the old homeland. At the Supreme Court at Christchurch yesterday George Allen claimed '£200 damages Crom the New .Zealand Shipping Company for injuries "sustained by-him. while engaged in unloading the Rakaia. A bar of iron fell from the slings and crushed plaintiff's foot. He alleged that the accident was owto tho absence of packing in the slings. After some evidence had been ✓hoard judgment was given by consent for plaintiff for JEIM. A Tiniaru telegram states that rain was steadily falling yesterday afternoon and night —the first steady fall for' four .months. It will do incalculable benefit to grass and crops. The "residences of Messrs Parker, Gustofen, and Gooden, at Carterton, "were destroyed by Arc. The insurances r are £350 in the New Zealand and £250, ' in the Victoria. There was a heavy fllJfcd yesterday between- Pahiatua and Eketahuna, the water flowing over fences four feet high in'the lower parts. — \