CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AN" FOREIGN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11642, 21 August 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AN" FOREIGN.

Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. COLLIER'S WAGES. J Received August 19, 4.25 p.m. LONDON, August 19. Mr Beach, umpire of the Conciliation Board, has reduced the Welsh Colliers wages sliding" scale minimum, owinjg" to a fall in prices. A STRANGE STORY. / LONDON, August 19. Watt has been remanded on bail. Herbert Marshall, a private detective, told an amazing story. He alleged that Watt offered him .£5OOO to induce hia divorced wife to visit Watt's house, when they should chloroform her to death. - x AN INFEKNAL MACHINE. NEW YORK, August 19. An infernal machine was delivered at .the office of Sch'iff, of the Kuhu Doeb Company, New York. Schiff previously interviewed M. -de Witte in the interest of the Jews of Russia. , v ARREST OF AN ANARCHIST. VIENNA, August 19. Zon, an Anarchist, has been arrested at Botzen. He had in his possession revolvers and bombs, and it is suspected that he was meditating attempting the life of the Emperor and princes, and then hanging himself in prison. SOUTn AFRICA. CAPETOWN, August 20. Under the new constitution the electorate in the Transvaal numbers 80,000. THE VATICAN. -ROME, August 20. The Pope is building a large apartment house in the Vatican "gardens for the prestnt residents of the Vatican, and as a precaution to preserve ' the palace treasures. ' ' j