Cable News.

Manawatu Herald, 15 September 1903, Page 2

Cable News.

SUPPOSED MURDER. Brisbane, September 11. A suspected case of murder/.-has-come to light at Warwick hundred miles south-west of Brisbane) The decapitated body of a youth named Donald Mace was found in the bush. The boy left home weeks ago with two companions on a hunting expedition. SEIZURE OF ISLANDS. London, September 11., United States warships have seized several islands at Sarval Bay, Borneo, which have been administered by Great Britain for a quarter of a century. AN ENGAGEMENT WITH ARABS, Loldon, September 10. While 100 soldiers of the First Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment and the 123rd Bombay Infantry, with two guns, were escorting a party in the Aden hinterland, they were treacherously attacked. A native surveyor was killed. The troops destroyed a village, and killed some of the Arabs. FIRE ON A STEAMER. Melbourne, September 12 A fire, which quickly assumed alarming proportions, occurred on the steamer Pilbarra last night. 'The outbreak was apparently due to the sp mtaneous combustion of a quantity of nitre in the forehold. The flames spread so rapidly that a pantryman named White was imprisoned, and was only rescued through a hold cut in the upper deck just as the flames scorched his back.

The fire subsided almost as rapidly as it began. The cargo in No. X bole was practically burnt out. The amount of damage is unknown.