CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 946, 26 January 1911, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

-Mr Lloyd-Georgc hit- left, on n health tt ip for Italy. i)r. Kotukn and his wife. the Japanese anarchists, ami ten others have been executed at Tokio. The United .States Treasury is initiating a widespread ini estimation of wrapper timl trill'r imports. Irish blight continues to spread in Victoria. and 34 putato-grow ing districts are tpiaraiil inetl. Spraying is being largely in iltsed. It is reported that the Mexican insurgents occupied Montezuma city on Sunday. Many shipments of arms are being mado across the United Stales landers. Statistics regarding Cuba, show discrepancies involving a loss to the United Stalls Uovemment of nearly a mihion sterling annually since 1906. The Alierdeen liner Themislocks made a. successful trial rim from Cardiff to London. Many Australian and Nmv Zealand shippers wort' present. The Victorian wheat harvest is coming np to expectations and a record yield seems assured. Two million bags are lying at railway stations awaiting transport.. The Caiiadiaii-l’aeilk; railway is planning new lines to open up the districts of Western, Canada. Mil!ions are to ho spent In laying double tracks for the Transcontinental line. The French Academy of Sciences by 30 voles to 28 rejected the election of Maritime Curie to the membership of f.ho Society. Madame Curie assisted her husband in the discovery of radium. A party of tourists at Mount Buffalo (Victoria) encountered an electric storm Their hair literally stood on end. The party felt a tingling sensation, but none of tfiein were injured. Judge fnger, delivering judgment in further cases arising out of the riots in the Moabit quarter, declared the citizens were just died in shooting the policemen. who were brutally assailing them. Tito Navy Board supports President Taft's plea for fortifying the Panama Canal, believing the fortifications will prove an invaluable aid to transferring the American fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific in war time. Mr J. E. Schwitzcr, who was recently appointed chief engineer on the OanadiunPacilic railway, consequent on his brilliant engineering achievements for the Company, has died at Montreal from penumonia. As a recent decision disclosing file method of computing valuations for license duties under the Budget showed that: the Budget had operated with greater severity than was intended. Mr LloydGeorge promises Legislaiive adjustment. At the Island of New Britain Harry l.iversey, a settler and two natives, were capsized from a small boat. One of the natives swam, ashore for assistance. The Others clung to the boat, and nothing has since been seen of the boat or the occupants. Renter states that the contract for salving the Aotoa. hits been concluded. Given a continuance of the present perfect weather the bulk of the cargo will be discharged. It. will then be ascertainable whether the vessel will be refloata.ble us is hoped. The King has given ±l5O to the headquarters fund of the .Boy Scouts. The Duke of Connaught, presiding at: the annual dinner of tho_ fund, stated that 100.000 scouts wore enrolled in Britain ami the total throughout the world was a quarter of a mil'ion. The ollicers commanding the second infantry regiment of the Commonwealth have offered 1o defray the expenses of sending two officers and ten non-commis-sioned officers to represent the Australian defence forces at the Coronation. A scheme is also afoot to send 80 senior cadets at private expense. Sarvarkar is being charged at Bombay with aiding the murder of Jackson NTisik. The prosecution states that he sent fifty Browning pistols through a cook employed in an Indian house by means of a box with a. false, bottom, thus eiading the Customs. One of the pistols was given to Jackson’s murderers.