Various Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3637, 10 April 1906, Page 3

Various Items.

Sydney, April 7. Two hundred and fifty guineas have been subscribed in Sydney for the Courrieres disaster fund. The lists have been closed. Dr Danysz leaves Paris for Australia shortly. It is proposed to place cattle and sheep on an island where he conducts his experiments for rabbit extermination.

Melbourne, April 7, The office of the Eastern Extension Co., remains open despite the authorities’ order to close it. The matter will be one for legal determination. The secretary of

the Postal Department traverses the Company’s contention that it is the public who suffer by the •dosing, and affirms that the Coy. proposed the pooling arrangement with the Pacific Cable Coy. in order that they might close the Melbourne and Sydney offices and give up special land lines, thus saving yearly. The manager of the Eastern Extension Co. replied that it was the Pacific Coy. who first suggested the pooling.

London, April 6

Prince Bulow is suffering from overwork and influenza. There is no sign of paralysis. He will probably be incapacitated for some weeks. The Kaiser is much concerned. A new hotel in the Black Forest collapsed during a house-warming dance. Forty-two deaths occurred and seventy-one were seriously injured among the already recovered. Many, however, are still beneath the debris. New York, April 5. Dowie returns to Chicago to challenge the right of his flock to depose him.

Berlin, April 6. The recent order of the Prussian Government for the sudden expulsion of 7000 Russian refugees, mostly Jews, has been suspended to enable charity organisations to arrange for the gradual migration of the refugees to America. The latest report is that Prince Bulovv is progressing favourably. Constantinople, April 6. Four men have been sentenced to death for the murder of Redvan Pasha; St. Petersburg, April 6. Thieves stole forty-seven thousand roubles from the Monastery at Rostkoff. Capetown, April 6. Meetings at Capetown and Johannesburg have initiated a movement for presenting addresses of appreciation of Lord Milner’s services. London, April 6. The Admiral has sent seven cruisers to sink the derelict steamer Dunmore, which is drifting in the track Of Trans-atlantic liners.