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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7926, 6 October 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(Per Press Association). .(By, ElGCtrio Teiegraph-C6pyri e Ht). LONDON, October-5. Obituary—CJarenee' Dally, Edison's r n me/ a>slstant' who suffered since 3897 trom the results of experiments with the X rays, causing ctuieer of Uie wrists, hands and arms,'both of which were amputated. ■ The Church Congress now sitting at Liverpool is .the. largest gather-in* on record. '

Lady Curzon is not 50 weii, il te result of a disturbed night Eight Boers, who escaped from Bermuda, were arrested on a German steamer, and excluded under the Immigration Act on the ground of being without visible means of support. They refuse to swear allegiance, and declare they are subjects of no country. The Indian Office announces that the Thibet Convention still awaits Lord Curzon's ratification. The terms have not yet been finally settled. Canada's fine exhibit; of produce is a great attraction, at tho Dairy Show, London, where Australia is only represented by forty boxes of butter, which have been entered for competition. Harris, fireman on the new Milford express, by sticking to his pose after the driver had been hu'lbd oat and cut ia two, turned off the steam and prevented an explosion. The brave man, however was fatally injured. ' _ Lord Halifax, presiding a* the English Church Union at Live.pool,' s»id tho Government ought to provide schools tor difterent denominations where-the. children could be severally taught thsirparents' faith. Denominationaliats were entitled to the same justice given to undenominationalistß.

™ -.3 * ?EW YOEK> O^ober 5. Mr liedmond held a meeting at Philadelphia, the Governor of Pennsylvania presiding. .Letters were read from ttvenfcy-five State Governors, approving of Home Eule for Ireland. Prof. Jenks, who was sent by President Eoosevelt to study the monetary system of the Par East, returned to San Francisco yesterday. He declared the belief that China at an early date will formally adopt the gold standard-

CAPETOWN, October 5. A proclamation, issued at Pretoria arranges for the administration of Swaziland.

An intention to rob the Commissioner street branch of the African Banking Corporation at Johannesburg becoming known, detectives concealed at the former place awaited the advent of the robbers, and- shot one of four armed men who attempted to hold up the bank during the afternoon. Two escaped in a cab, but were captured later. One wounded man, supposed to be the fourth, has been arrested.

PAEIS, October 5. Ihe Temps' correspondent at Madrid says that a treaty has been arranged, to be imperative until 1919, harmonising Spain's sphere of influence and Prance's pacific penetration in Morocco, whereby the towns of Tetuan and Tangiers will be ultimately included in the Spanish sphere.