CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3582, 7 October 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, October 5. A hundred and ten ships al'O delayed through the Suez Canal being blocked by debris from the exploded steamer Chatham. have already lost £50,000 owing to the delay, A MURDERER CONDEMNED. Sydney, October 5, Bernard Henry Midwinter has been sentenced to death for the murder of Frank Rees near Louth on October 19th, 1904. The body was found tied to a fence under water. The face was beaten out of recognition, and the clothes and other clues destroyed. The police, after immense trouble, sheeted the crime home to Midwinter.

Rees and Midwinter wore shearing mates. Robbery was tne motive of the crime, NEW YORK LIFE. Washington, Oct. 5. Mr McCall, president of the New York Life Assurance Society, testified that three-fourths of the legislation introduced into the State Legislatures comprised “blackmail bills” designed to badger and harass companies. The New York Life Assurance Company’s license to do business in Nevada has been revoked, pending an investigation of the charges of fraudulent disposal. of funds. ITALY’S DISTRESSED. London, Oct. 5, Lord Brassey explains, in reference to recent cablegram, that he did not offer to supply funds to construct houses for those who lost their homes through the earthquakes at Calabria, in Italy. He merely suggested that the designs of cheap cottages erected at Garden City, , Letch worth, might be submitted to the / Italian authorities.