CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7928, 8 October 1904, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

. '*"; —=t*! —~iii* - (Per Press Association)„. £By Electrio Telegraph—CopyrigHt). DISTRESS IN RUSSIA. (Received Oct. 8. at 9.7 a.m.) ".- ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 7. . Out of 16,000 artisans at Moscow and Vladimir, chief centres of the textile trades, 50,000 are workless.. X A ADVANCE., OP /TECHNICAL EDU- ■ CATION IN GERMANY"BERLIN, Oct. 7. The Kaiser, in opening the technical college iat Dantzig, said it was intended to develop local, industries, -especially -shipbuilding. He emphasised Germany's advance in the matter of technical science, due to systematic training and ■not to savants'chance, discoveries. : THE KAISER WRONG. ';

: Professor Wilhelm.Kahl ;has warned the' Kaiser that his of the legal aspects.of the Lippe succession are, utterly wrong. " Thereismuch indignation at the Kaiser's arbitrary telegram, especially since, it ewas'not/endorsed with Count yon. Buldw?s signature. CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST '~..-'■ .;..■'■ A COUNTESS. ROME, Oct. 7. /The trial of the beautiful Countess Linda Bqntarturi and her lover, Professor Secchi, on a charge of • murdering Ler husband, is intensely, interesting* to Rome andis astonishing her relations. AMERICAN NAVY REQUIRES : .STRENGTHENING.; "' ... '"..-.; / NEW YORK, October 7/ Admiral Sterling recommends important additions to the United States navy .on'the Asiatic station.** • THE SCOTTISH CHURCHES. j Eeceived Oct. 8, at 9.61 a.tn. LONDON, October 7. ■; ■The .Free, Church Commission of the ' General Assembly has refused to enlarge the powers of the conference.. The representatives rejected. the suggestion of -arbitration. : A:-A- ■: ./. '".../*:' X "A PALMISTS PROSECUTED..-■■•-- ':' ,Mr Alfred Harmsworth" prosecuted three West End palmists. for false pre-." tences and ; each was ordered to find sureties of £100 '.; and to come up for judgment if the; offence is repeated.

modernised;

The New Zealand Court at the Imperial Institute has. been, reorganised a,nd modernised.:; ... A :'/•' /'

TRADE RETURNS,

- The\- Board of : Trade/ returns'for September show that '■ the imports decreased by £2,377,178,' while the exports had" h> creased by £2,612,908. XA < ■-*:.' '*-'::