CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 390, 17 March 1908, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Melbourne, March 15. Seventy persons were victims.to ptomaine poisoning at a picnic at Mornington through eating ox tongue. ~ Fourteen were sent to the hospital, London, March 15. The opening ceremony at the Franco-British Exhibition will be performed by King Edward and the French President, M. Eallieres. New Yor?, March 15. Walsh, whose case was cabled on January 20 was refused a new trial and sentenced to five years in a penitentiary. He appealed against the conviction and was released on bail in a bond of ,£IO,OOO. The judge remarked that a banker ought to be a banker. Nobody could serve two masters. Walsh had practically lent himself for the purposes of speculating, three fourths of the bank’s assets. [Walsh," president of the defunct Chicago National Bank, was convicted on a charge of misapropriation. He admitted lending 16,000,000 dollars of the bank’s funds to assist struggling enterprises.] London, March 13. In the House of Lords, Lord Middleton initiated a debate on the Army, particularly in reference to partially trained batteries. Lord Roberts urged that 40 efficient batteries would be much more effective than a much greater number of territorial batteries which, untrained and unorganised, might be a source of danger. He contended that to trust amateur artillerists would be to court disaster. The country should be sufficiently garrisoned to protect it from an invader. The debate was adjourned. London, March 14, Official advices from Washington state that Admiral Ryans’ fleet will leave San Francisco on July 6 and will visit in turn Hawaii, Samoa, Melbourne and Sydney. From Sydney the fleet will proceed to the Philippine Islands, for autumn gunnery practice, after which it will return to the Atlantic via Suez. •£ . . The invitation to the fleet to visit Australia was supported by the British Ambassador.