CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, 12 November 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

A LUCKY WOMAN. NEW YORK, Nov. 9. Fowler, a lumbering of Pasandona, California, has left bf. B widow, who, until recently, was hie housekeeper, seven million sterling. ■ OLD AGE TENSIONERS. v*. ~ MELBGURNSH&ov. 10. There are 18,000.01 d age pensioners in the State, drawing an average poualou o l *l7 16s Bd. HOLIDAY PAY. NEWCASTLE, Nov. 10. The coal-trimmers who refused to work on Wednesday, owing to the to pay holiday not to resume work till their demands are acceded I l|be tr|mmers r/sumfe Jfork on UQdoi - the usual .conditions, for nil stevedores excepting the Newcastle Stevedoring Company, which, caters for five of the principal-' inter- State companies and handles cabout half the coal shipped, the manager of the company refusing assurance that holioay /atew would be paid for the Prifl<w or Wales' birthday, A numbeß offtewnera are, |unul4 tapMcy ing. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE, LONDON, Nov. 9. An earthquake, at Formosa (an island off the south-east coast of China, which was ceded to Japan at the close of the War ia 1895) on Sunday killed; 78, popple and injured AN OUTBREAK OP ftPHOID. LCINDONt 10. ; The outbreak of .typhmd at'Portsmouth has bein triced* This is similar to r the IOQU outbrcak. "• AMERICA'S WASHINGTON/ Ndtf 40. The Navy Board hasj»eon»#ended the construction of three battleships, five Iscput SIX' destroyers, and two colliery th|s qostaggregating forty million dollars. LIEUTENANT WXTTON IN V* r ADELAIDE, Nor. 10. l%pt.'lWitton, of the Buahfeldfc Carbineers, who was imprisoned connection with an incident of thoP Boer war, and who, having recently been released, has arrived here, expresses his gratitude to Australians for interesting themselves in bis gm&sSfflot: a mitted .the justice of. his. .sentence. This was entirely He said ; “In doing what I did 1 was merely carrying out the “7 nit have done atances,’’ ,‘,V