Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3491, 2 March 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

RAILROAD DOCKS BURNED. New York, February 27. A fire in the Stuvvesant docks, the terminus of the Illinois Central Railroad, New. Orleans, did five million dollars worth of damage, including t'«e destruction of grain elevators containing a million bushels and twenty thousand bales of cotton. ITALY’S SOCIAL SENSATION. Rome, February 27. The Bonmartini trial has been resumed at Turin Naldi testified that Tullio Murri entered the house, haying a svringo intended, to inieet poison into (he sleeping Count’s veins. Naldi remonstralcd and quit*eel the house. THE SIMPLON TUNNEL. Rome. Febrnarv 27. A train bearing specially invited guests entered the Simplon Tunnel. The majoritv fainted owing to the carbonic oxide emanations. Two officials died. [The Simplon is newest and longest of the Alpine railway undertakings, and is now on the point of completion.')

An explosion in Wilcox, West Virginia, US.A., killed 2\ persons. In a billiard match in London, Stevenson (18,000) beat Dawson, who was 16,200 when his opponent ran out. A Melbourne cable, states that the barque Clan McLeod, which arrived from the Thames river on Mqndav morning, went asuore on a point in Neapean bight, inside the heads. The vessel floated off later. The Grand Duchess Elizabeth (wife of the late Grand Duke Sergius, who was recently assassinated in St. Petersburg) has ordered the poor of Moscow, who are estimated at 45,000, free dinners for forty days at her expense.