CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, 29 November 1904, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

AFTER AN INSTRUCTOR. MOROCCO* Nov. 9S. Tribesmen made a desperate attempt to capture Laid Sir Harry Mac Lean, Instructor-in-Chief of the army in Morocco, during his flight to the coast. He is now with his family at Amla awaiting a vessel. CONSPIRACY AGAINST A GENERAL. BELGRAVE, Nov. 25. General Nekolitch, who waswoun ded while trying to save the late Queen at the tilhe of the assassination has been arrested for conspiring with other officers to avenge the murders and kill King Peter. Other arrests have been made hero. ALLEGED CORRUPTION. OTTAWA, Nov. 25. Details of the false ballot boxes used at the Canadian election go to show that Ihe papers of known Conservatives were switched into a secret compartment and not counted. BUSH FIRES. SYDNEY, Nov. 26. Bush fires have done much damage to crops and fencing. In the Singleton districts the settlers spent two nights guarding their homes NEW GOLD FILED IN RHODESIA. CAPETOWN, Nov. 27. The second consignment of alluvial gold from Rhodesia contains larger nuggets which are superior to the first, A further area of 24 square miles, containing running water, has been pegged off MANSION BURNED. LONDON, Nov. 27. The Countess of Stomford’s famous mansion, Enville Hall, Kidderminster, has been burned. The damage is estimated at £IOO,OOO. The priceless works of old mastery were rescued.