CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 26 October 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

London, October 23. The first cattle-driving raid in Westmeath led to seven arrests.

Cider from the Wagga Government Farm was awarded a bronze , medal at the Brewer’s Exhibition. The enquiry into the Shrewsbury railway accident showed that the driver had twice been suspended for overshooting and disregarding signals. Paris, October 23. Roland Bonaparte has ordered hi Paris for his daughter Marie, whose betrothal to Prince George of Greece, was recently announced, a trousseau costing ,£61,000. London, October 23. The London market to-daj’ opened flat and unsettled, especialty American stocks. Consols were unchanged. Sixty million herrings were landed at Yarmouth in one catch. The Earl of Shaftesbury, while motoring at Belfast, killed a little S irl, , Berlin, October 23. Although the Opera prices were raised 300 per cent., applications for 40,000 seats for four Caruso performances were refused. Vienna, October 23. A goods and passenger train, collided at Rabihtya, on the Vistula railway, and 18 were killed and 20 seriously injured. London, October 23. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, at Dunfermline, emphasising the social reforms clamouring for solution, said drunkenness, depopulation, bad housing, infant mortality and ignorance were all subjects demanding sterner methods of treatment than the Unionists were willing to employ. These formed the object of Bills which were prevented from becoming Acts, including the Education, Land Values, Scotland and Scottish Small Holders Bills. Sir Henry advised the suffragettes that if they pestered people persistently they would probably win sooner than many expected. Sydney, October 24. Owing to the dearness ot lood, the restaurant-keepers have decided to increase their tariff for meals. Mr Goodman’s daughter, who was terribly injured in the fire at Manildra, has succumbed.

[ln the fire one girl, aged n, was burned to death. It was while returning to the building a fourth time, after rescuing three others, to the aid of this one, that the girl, 16 years of age, mentioned in the above cable, met with her injuries, a wall of the burning house collapsing and falling upon her.] London, October 23.

At the enquiry into the recent railway accident at Shrewsbury, in which an express train left the line at a curve early in the morning while heavy rain was lalling, with the result that out of 100 passengers, 19 were killed and 40 injured, the evidence showed that the drivdk had twice been suspended for over-shooting or disregarding signals. fit has already been alleged that the driver disregarded the danger signals, and was travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, when the train was derailed on a curve at a viaduct. Fifteen carriages left the metals and were piled up on the locomotives.]