CABLE NEWS.
ROME, September 24. An eruption now in progress at Mount Vesuvius is the greatest for a decade. LONDON, Sept 28. While the Archbishop of Canterbury (the Most Rev. Randall Davidson) was (ravelling in Mr Pierpont Morgan’s special train, a Washington train collided with the engine of the special at East Brookfield. The Archbishop escaped with a shaking. Mr Morgan’s express was travelling at the rate of a mile a minute at th# time of the collisioij. The impact carried a stray engine a hundred yards before it was thrown on to another line. No cars were derailed. NEW YORK, September 26.' Mr Pierpont Morgan retires from active business at the end of the year. It is estimated he is possessed of a fortune of twenty million sterling. His son succeeds him. ST. PETERSBURG. Sept. 25. The Government has sanctioned the construction of a canal from the White Sea to Onega at a cost of nine million sterling. The canal is to be 145 miles long, 10 feet deep, and 68 feet wide, being mostly along natural waterways.
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Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1904, Page 2
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179CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1904, Page 2
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