Cable News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7923, 3 October 1904, Page 2

Cable News.

'(Byj Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Per Press Association).

LONDON, October 2. Xn connection with Austria's naval order, representing a quarter of a million sterling, Yarrows are unable to comply with the workmen's demands for a time and a half for night work, instead of time and a quarter, as is customary elsewhere in. Britain. Hence : ihe firm will only build one destroyer and one torpedoer, and have made arrangements for the execution of the rest of the order at the St. Abiimeno, Technico, /Trieste yards, where labour is much cheaper. „Obituary--Eight,Hon. Sir William Harcourt, Liberal member for Monmouthshire, who died suddenly at Nineham Park..

The quarterly revenue returns amount to £29,647,459. The principal x^lUn™ Cus-toms £8-733,584. excise ±8,bb0,000, and Btamps £1,631,000. Lady Curzon passed a very comfortable day.

The Government is inviting tenders to close on Thursday, for six million three per cent, exchequer bonds, with a currency of five years. The loan has been favourably received, and it is expected the average will be about 89..

■■' . SYDNEY, October 2. As the outcome of a lovers' quarrel at Hedfern, a young girl named Beena Dononue fired two shots in the neck'of a man named Frank Adams, and then shot herself dead. The man is in a precarious condition.

_The quarterly revenue of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia all show substantial increases. The gales along the coast continue. The barque Adolphe was in ballast when she went ashore. There is no hope of getting her off. There is general admiration at the lifeboat's gallant and risky rescue of the crew.

MELBOURNE, October 2. The agreement between the banks, which has existfed for a long time past, in regard to exchange in London, has been dissolved, and each institution is now making its own quotations. The majority have quoted twelve shillings and sixpence por cent discount for buying and two and sixpence per cent, premium for selling, at sixty days. The jury in connection with the Ararat tragedy, found- that Michael Walsh had committed suicide by drowning. An open verdict was returned reHarding his sister Bridget, and that the charred remains were unidentifiable.

PARIS, October 2. A padlocked postal van, containing Egyptian, Italian, and French mails for America, was entered between Paris and Eouen. Ninety-one bags were ripped open, and securities of considerable value stolen.