CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7915, 22 September 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(P«r Press Association) .. (By, Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

BOMB, September 21. ;: An engine, while in the charge ot a fireman; during the driver'smomentary absence, became uneontrollV able and dashed mlo a passenger train at Ferrara Seven people^were killed and 16 injured, including M. Bitter, Austrian Under-Secretary for Finance. PARIS, September 21: ■' The French vintage is the. best for many years. *' ■

_/ BELGBADE, September 21. King Peter's regalia was blessed at the Belgrade Cathedral yesterday. The coronation takes place to-day. The foreign Powers have refused to send delegations. Several diplomatists at Belgrade have been appointed representatives extraordinary, except, the Bussian, though the Czar sent a friendly letter to King Peter, The United States and Franceare not specially represented, and Great Britain is unrepresented. The Ministry will shortly be reconstructed, when the regicide iiiuuence dominuiing the Government's acts will finally disappear. King .fet-r is m receipt of numerous threats of bombs being thrown on the occasion of his coronation.

SYDNEY, September 21. News from the New Hebrides states that iour native members of a boat'd crew from the trading vessel Chevalier were murdered at Malekula.

Captain Prosper and one of the crew of the La Perle were massacred at Hogg Island.

Admiral Fanshawe. with the Euryalus has been ordered to proceed to Singapore next month, to attend a conference with the Commanders-in-Chief of the East Indies and the China station, on the matter of naval concentration iii the East.

HOBART, September 21. The Legislative Council has passed an amendment to the Stamp Duty Bill, imposing a threepenny tax: on lottery tickets.