CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, 1 October 1904, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

NEW YORK. Sept. 28. Divers, at Brooklyn, discovered, on the ways, an obstruction intended to rend the bottom of the battle-ship Connecticut, which is to be launched to-day. It is suspected the act is due to the labour troubles in connection with the vessel’s construction. LONDON, Sept. 28. The Shaw Savill and Albion Company’s steamer Mamari, for the New Zealand trade, has been launched at Belfast. / BRISBANE, Sept. 29. Rich gold discoveries are reported ill the Mackinlay ranges. A specimen yielded at the rate of 212 ounces to the ton. The stone is described as being like Mount Morgan. LONDON, Sept. 28. The strike at the Ourzon ’.cotton mills, Aabton-under-Lyne, over the refusal of the girls in the factory to dean the machinery after hours, has ended, the operatives throwing over the union and resuming work on the old terms, CHRISTIANIA, Sept. 29. 1 The Duke of Orleans applied to the Norwegian Government for permission to hire the ship Pram in which Nansen made his famous Polar expedition in 1898-96-for an Arctic expedition in 1905. The request has been granted, subject to the condition that Captain Sverdrup shall again command the vosbbl# THE HAGUE, Sept. 29. Speaking in the Netherlands Parliament, the Premier, Dr A. Kuyper, expressed regret that the Dutch troops had killed a thousand women and children during recent fighting in the Dutch East Indies, but explained that this was inevitable since the Gawor tribesmen used their wives . and children as shields in battle.