GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 423, 13 August 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Rome, August n

Dorando, the Italian competitor at the Olympic games, received an ovation on his return to Turin. He was almost smothered with embraces and kisses. London, August 11. A “swell mobsman” entered Lord Winborne’s residence at Templeton House, Barnes, Surrey, and secured ,£2OOO worth of art treasures; Two subalterns of the second battalion of the Buffs have been cashiered, and three others sentenced to the loss of a year’s seniority for “ragging” a new officer. Budapest, August 11. Nastic, .the journalist who gave evidence at the State trial at Cettinje in June, has published an amazing book at Budapest. It gives details of the Servian conspiracy against Montenegro, for which 22 people were arrested. When Nastic reached Vienna, the police conducted him to Croatia, and seized his correspondence, implicating the Belgrade Court. Copenhagen, August n. All the newspapers, except the Socialist journals, have stopped publication, owing to a strike. The masters threaten a lock-out in allied trades.

Vancouver, August n

The Chinese in British Columbia threaten to boycott Canadian goods if anti-opium legislation is passed. The Chinese claim ten years in which to sell their stock. Otherwise they will lose millions of dollars.

Constantinople, August xi. The Turkish Ministers are abolishing office sinecures, suppressing subventions to foreign newspapers and reducing the pay of higher officials which is more than that of Ministers of any other States. Berlin, August n. An explosion of firedamp at Dudeveiler mine, Saarbuckeu, killed 13 men and injured 13, eight seriously.