General Cable Summary.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3527, 27 May 1905, Page 2

General Cable Summary.

VARIOUS ITEMS EPITOMISED, The Chicago strike is spreading and the militia are held in re'3(}iQCW| and supplied with Gatling guns. . The total death roll of the Indian, earthquakes was 20,000. A sum of £26,000 was collected in India and £6goo in England for sufferers. A goods’ train with passenger earriges attached was derailed near Kharkoff, 465 miles south-east of Moscow. Many persons were killed and injured. Britain and Nicaragua have signed a treaty acknowledging Nicaragua’® sovereignty ovtT the .Mosquito coast and abrogating the use' pf San Juan Del Norte as a free port. Cold winds and frost have almost ruined many Kentish and other orchards and caused havoc in .corn.® Continental vineyards. Turkey has yielded to Roumanian demands for reparation for the imprisonment of two school inspectors, at Yamina. The inspectors Wtre reinstated" and the Vah ultimately twins* ferred.

The plague has appeared in tb6 Pina* cantonment. This district lies l>'«tw£Sn the Rivers Indu**n<S Jhelum, 160 rofts« by rail north-west of Lahore. The town of the name is a military station, and has an active transit trade with Cashmere and Afghanistan. “Empire Pay” in England was celebrated in hundreds of towns and villages by demonstrations.- In thousands of churches and public building* and at dinners it was the topic of many speeches. King Edward inspected the Army Corps, and unveiled a memorial to the Medical Corps at Aldershot. The Prince of Wales unveiled the Colonial Bear War Memorial at St Paul’s.