CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 31 December 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Melbourne, December 28 The inter-State cricket match Victoria v. New South Wales is postponed till Monday, the ground being unfit to play upon owing to rain. Hamburg, December 28. A ship named the Disinfector is exclusively engaged here in fumigating vessels and killing rats by Professor Nocht’s system. Brussels, Dec. 28. Loyson, cashier at the Bank of Brussels, who absconded with 300,000 francs belonging to the bank, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment for the bank robbery, and the receivers to from three to 24 months’ each. Cairo, December 28. Nearly one hundred thousand tons of coal is awaiting discharge at Port Said. The strikers still demand an extra fivepence per ton on all coal landed or shipped. Tokxo, December 28. The tide of Japanese emigration isj turning towards Brazil. Madrid, December 27. ' The newspaper Imparcial urges King Alfonso to visit the South American Republics. Vienna, Dec. 28. The man who gained access the other day to the regimental safe at Vienna arsenal, and abstracted has been arrested. He is a deserter, named Goldschmidt. The man had in his possession. Pie had repaid a woman a sum of which he had previously robbed her.