Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3536, 20 June 1905, Page 2

Various Cabled Items.

Germany is reported to b"8 beginning fo fortify Kiaochau. I By the unexpected explosion of * I on hoard H.M.S. Magnificent i a liehlesartt and three men were 1 fatally m jilted and several others i seriously. . A . .. ~ ! St. Petersburg' advices state that i 400 out of xo,ooo WarsSvc' police nave resigned owing to the many j£iurderou« attacks on the force. Even the officers are' panic-stricken, since th* Socialist* have sentenced many to death. An outbreak ot cholera is reported from Tomsk, in Western Siberia. The “Pretoria News” says the ugliest f« iture of the war stores scandal /is the press censor’s rehisal to permit \ correspondents in Pretoria to warn the public, and pretending that such refusal was in the b£>st interest pf th» : army. j A promising copper lode has bees i discovered near Coama {264 mileff : south-west of Sydney;. Earthquakes ! were experienced in the same district , on Friday. ; Advices from Johannesburg state, a suggestion for the formation of a Central Court of Appeal for the whole ot South Africa has been abandoned. Two hundred and eighty members of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association have arrived in England on a three-weeks’ visit, to study industrial and commercial trading relations ba- : tween England and Canada.