Cable News.

Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1903, Page 2

Cable News.

AN OLD MAN MURDERED. Sydney, September 4. A tragedy is reported from Manilla, three hundred miles north of Sydney.

An old man named John Hines was left by bis wife sitting on a chair beside the door of their bouse. When she returned after a short absence the woman found her husband in the same position, with his head split open, dead. The police arrested a swagsman, running the gauntlet of several shots which he fired. A SOLDIER’S REPENTANCE. St. Petersburg, September 4General Dragomireff sacrifices t‘30,000 in resigning the GovernorGeneralship of Kieff, in Southern Russia. He declared that he was ashamed and pained at constantly employing troops in massacring political malcontents and innocent civilians THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT THREATENED. New York, September 4. The German who was arrested at Oyster Bay for threatening the American President pointed a revolver at Mr Roosevelt. A detective who was accom panying the President, seized the re volver in the nick of time.

EAST AFRICA.. London, September 7. Lord Lindley, after paying a visit to East Africa, protests against the sending thither of undesirable aliens. He says ttiat probably ninety-five per cent of the Zionists are not acquainted- with agriculture. HIS HOLTN ESS THE POPE. Rome:, September 6. It is reported here that His Holiness the Pope desires to break the tradition that an Italian must be the Secretary of State and to appoint Cardinal Moran, though his liberal views are an obj ection. THE MOROCCO REBELLION Morocco, September 6. The Pretender defeated 1200 .Moorish soldiers near Cujda, capturing the field gun presented to the Sultan by the French Government. THE REVOLT IN PERSIA.

St. Psteusboko, September 6.

Russian advices state that serious differences have occurred between the Shah of Persia and the head of the Shi sect. The latter has threatened to ask the Sultan of Turkey to take the country and Islamites under his protection.