CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7916, 23 September 1904, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

(By, Electric- Telegratph-CopyrigHt) (Per Press Association)*

LONDON, September 22.

Orders for steel cars for the Baker-street-Waterloo tube railway have been placed with New York firms. British firms are unuble to make tbem, ■ but there are , English firmß ■ now laying down the plant necessary. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company: has declared a dividend of .5 per cent and a. bonus of 2 per cent. It will devote £45,000 to the reduction of the deficit on land sales, and £40,000 to the Contingency Fund to meet exceptional losses on live stock in the future.

The South African Chartered Company is, issuing a million shares for general Rhodesian purposes. It has been arranged for half, if necessary, to be underwritten!

NEW YORK, September 22,

Thirty Dowites, disapproving of the new title, have quitted Zion, and gone' homewards, some to Australia.

An unprecedented event has created a sensation. An Alabama Grand Jury sanctioned an indictment against twentysix whites at Huntsville for lynching and a number of lesser offences. They" aIBO, recommend the impeachment of the mayor, sheriff and chief of polioe for not preventing the lynching, The German allied steamship lines have raised the westward steerage rate from Britain to America, but reduced the fares to and from Austria and Hungary. The White Star and American lines have raised the Atlantic steerage rates.

Nobody has been punished in connec-

tion with the General Slocum disaster, or the Iroquois Theatre fire. The officials in the latter case, after a temporary scare, Were ordered to pay the lawyers' bills. The officials certifying to the good condition of the General Slqcum's life-saving appliances still retain their posts.

' = ROME, September 22. The Anarobiets and Socialists had lively altercations at the Frepthought Conference on the question of separating Church and State. Some opposed Church and State alike. Others were tolerant on all matters of faith. Some urged deliverance from capitalist oppre9sion as first and religion aftorwards. This led a member to declare that all political opinions bad a rii>ht to be respected. .

BELGRADE, September 22. King Jfeter'e crown weighed nine poands. King Peter, became fatigued during the ceremony connected with Mb coronation, and twice interrupted the reception in order to Bit down and remove it. The Royal military pageanta in the streets were greatly ohosrecl.