CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3770, 10 September 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

London, September 7. Reuter’s Omaha correspondent states that some passengers by the Rocky Mountains Limited express train suddenly masked themselves and with revolvers in both hands they covered the other passengers, compelling them to deliver up their pocket books and money. The robbers escaped as the train , slowed down on reaching a heavy gradient. Sydney, September 6. Great activity continues in the coal trade. The miners on all coalfields are combining to obtain increased pay and there is some talk of a general strike unless their demands are conceded. New York, September 6. Fifteen persons were burned to death in a hotel near Tacoma, in Washington State. Sydney, September 7. Owing to the advance in wheat the city millers have increased the price of flour ios per ton and it is now quoted at ,£lO. New York, September 6. Though his vessel-has been lost, geographical experts do not despair of the safety of Mikkelson’s Arctic party. The Hague, September 6. The committee of the Peace Convention has provisionally agreed to describe the new T Hague Court as of arbitral justice work. “Permanent ’ ’ was not insisted on since it belonged to the title of the existing Hague Court. Berlin, September 6. As a tug boat was passing a larger tug towing barges to Dusseldorf she caught her tow rope and sank in a few seconds. Sixteen were drowned. London, September 6. Mr H. M. Hyndman, in the newspaper Justice, threatens a socialist demonstration against the Kaiser on the occasion of his visit to-England. Bombay, September 6. The case for the prosecution in the trial of 70 persons charged with fomenting the Pindi riots, has closed. The defence is calling hundreds of witnesses, and the proceedings will be protracted. Ottawa, September 6, There is a consensus among engineers who have examined the St Lawrence bridge that the collapse was due to faulty material, not to the design.