CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7922, 30 September 1904, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

(By, Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

LADY CURZON. (Received September 30, at 8.27 a.m.)

LONDON, Sept. 29. Lady Curzon passed a fair night. Her condition shows an improvement.

IRISH AFFAIRS,

The Ulster members are promoting a convention to protest against Lord Dunraven's Association. The proposals urge the need of increased vigilance. SEDUCTION IN FREIGHTS DE-

SIEED.

The Associated Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, at a meeting in Manchester, appointed a committee to approach the shipping companies with a view to securing a reduction in freight rates to South Africa and Australasia. ,

MISSIONARY" SOCIETIES REFUSE

TO ACCEPT INDEMNITY.

The English Missionary Society, as a matter of principle, refused' the Chinese indemnity for the murder of two missionaries, and Britain has handed the amount, 17,000 dollars, to the Yale University for its mission to Changsha. Other English societies have, also, handed _their indemnities to the Yale University. . •■■'■.■ -

OBITUARY,

Obituary.—Colin Hunter, artist.

A RELIEF SOCIETY,

M. Mirski has withdrawn M. de Plehve's prohibition against the establishment of the Zemstov organisation for the relief of sick and wounded.

MUTILATION OF PICTURES,

NEW YORK, Sept. 29. i Several valuable, oil paintings of the (Czar in the Russian section of the St. Tiouis -Exhibition have been mutilated. \ BOER GRIEVANCES., ,

\ CAPETOWN, September 29. ~ burghers have met at Brandfort to promote a Boer National Congress to disciss their grievances.