CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7923, 4 October 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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mv » ~ LONDON, Oct. 3. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a message, urged the eleotors of Tnanet to place purity of Parliamentary life and personal fitness before political consideration j

Hundreds ot messages of condolence have reached Nuneham Park from all parts of the world and from all parties in the United Kingdom. King Edwurd, c? n*? me3sag3 of condolence, described' Sir William flarcoarc as an old and valued friend,

Ashantees smuggled quantities of gunpowder from Assini. It was accidentally discovered in trunks and bags and other luggage on one. eteamer and thrown overhoard.

NEW TOEK, Oct. 3. After the .Connecticut had been launched, a compartment flooded, and a hole was discovered bored through the keel plate. There is no clue as to the perpetrator.

o ■ SYDNEY, October 3. Speaking at the eight hours demonl stratum luncheon Mr Watson advised the. eleotors to prepare for trouble in connection with the Federal situation. Mr Hushes, in referring to the New bouth Wales Arbitration Court, de. scribed it a3 inoperative and should either be amended or wiped out altogether.

PEETH, October 3. Ihe iioongana has arrived, after a smart passage of 30i days, from Glasgow. She averaged sixteen knots on a daily consumption of 63 tons of coal. Ihe turbine never stopped once, except at coaling ports. Vibration was virtually absent, and she never (shipped a single sea. Chief engineer Dunlop states that the success of the turbine system has been thoroughly proved by the experience of the Loongana. The vessel easily maintained eighteen knots during the worst weather with four boilers, bne only used two on the run. MELBOURNE, October 3. Bewland's rjewellers' shop in Collinsstreet was entered, by burglars, and ±-900 worth of iewellery stolen.