GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 491, 7 October 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

New York, Oct,, 4.

The anti-Tammany party has selected Mr Ottoßanard, president of the New York Trust, as a candidate for the New York Mayoralty. Tammany has selected Mr Justice Gaynor. Though he has long denounced the evils of Tammany Hall, he is now its nominee. Ottawa, Oct., 5.

Prairie fires in the Hutton district of Alberta, West Canada, have caused millions of dollars worth of damage. Several lives have been lost. The flames are still raging. Berlin, Oct. 4.

M. Bougier (the. French aeroplanist who won the altitude prize at Brescia with a height of 645 feet) won the distance, altitude, and passengers prizes at Berlin. The prizes aggregate £3OOO. Mr H. Latham, monopianist, won the speed prize.

Brisbane, October 5.

Mr Kidston, the Premier, is satisfied that the elections have wiped out the Middle party, and that the country approves of the Government programme. Bome, October 5.

The Pope has issued a universal interdict against the Venetian city of Adria, and the surrounding country, in consequence of a mob of several thousand fanatical Catholics nearly stoning the Bishop of Boggiana to death. All public sacraments, including matrimony, are forbidden. London, October 4,

Statistics of persons courtmartialled in Russia during the last three years are as under :• — 1906, 4698 ; 1907, 4335 ; 1908, 7016.

The Home Secretary, Mr Gladstone, allows a solicitor to visit the Suffragette hunger strikers in Windsor Green Gaol. Mr Pankhurst states that if the Unionists do not promise to enfranchise women after the general election, the Suffragettes will have to pursue similar tactics with them as witli the Liberals. -

Forces from the neighbourhood of Fez, Mulai Hafid’s Moroccan capital, are being sent into the hinterland of Melilla, where the Spanish troops are punishing the Riffs.

Strong contingents from Fez have already arrived south of Zelwan, the town inland of Melilla which the Spaniards captured prior to the fall of Mt Gurugu. War between Spain and the Sultan Mulai Hafid is now feared.

In view of the many changes that have been made by the House of Commons in the Finance Bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Lloyd-George, has promised to submit a revised statement of the revenue which the Government hope to collect under the Budget. [The total of the original estimate was 16 to 17 millions per annum.]