CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11644, 23 August 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Preaa Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. A. CHURCH MISSION. Received August 22, 9.43 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 22. The Orthodox Russo-Greek Church authorities hero are* organising a mission to visit the islands of the Australasian Archipelago.' LANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE. , , LONDON, August 22. Now that the Lancashire cotton strike has been averted an effort is being made to secure the permanent regulation of wages in accordance with the estate of trade. . INDIA'S NEW VICEROY. BOMBAY, August 22. The appointment of Lord Minto was received quietly in India. It is regarded as almost non-political. THE DE BEERS MINE. LONDON, August 22. The Times correspondent at Capetown reports that the Supreme Court upholds the contention that the Income Tax Commissioner at the De Beers mine is liable for the income tax profits made by the London syndicate of diamond buyers. WAR MATERIAL FOR VENEZUELA. Received August 23, 8.46 a.m. CARACAS, August 22. Venezuela has orcfcred from Europe five million sterling worth of torpedoers, guns, and ammunition. AN ABSCONDER. PARIS, August 22. Gallay, a clerk in the Comptoir Descompte Paris, has absconded, taking ,£lOO,OOO. He left Havre aboard his own yacht. A BALKAN MASSACRE. SOFIA, August 22. A mixed band of Turks and Greeks, all in Turkish uniform, murdered 17 Bulgarians and kidnapped four at Klaiderop, near Fiorina. SALVATION ARMY IN GERMANY. BERLIN, August 22. Since January the Berlin authorities have allowed the Salvationists to march through the streets. Twenty thousand attendee^ a meeting on the Templehofer parade ground. GERMANY'S LITTLE WAR. BERLIN, August 22. Germany is sending 150 marines with several quick-firers on two small cruisers to West Africa.