MISCELLANEOUS CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8700, 8 January 1907, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLE NEWS.

Press Association - Copyright; New York, January 6. All the coloured regulars in the United States service have been assigned duty in the Philippines. General Bell declares that it is their turn to go, and states that sending them to_ foreign service is not connected with the Brownsville incident. Sydney. January 7 At the wool sales greasy touched 13}d, scoured 19|d. Calcutta, January 7. The Ameer is delighted with his reception. At Peshawar he delivered a most cordial speech in Persian and English. Paris, January 7. Forty professional ' gamblers, mostly Belgians, including Marguet, formerly waiter at Ostepd, and joint owners of several clubs in Paris, have been expelled from the country. It is" estimated that their gains amounted to a million sterling per annum. Clubs were started under the Association Law, without police supervision. Many society women are among the victims.

Berlin, January 6: While several hundred navvies were working in a 25 feet deep railway cutting near Bingen, a serious collapse occurred and buried many of them. Fifteen dead bodies have already been recovered. The accident was due to a thaw and the too perpendicular sides of the cutting. Berlin, January 7.

Eighteen navvies at Bingen are still buried and rescue is hopeless. London, January 7.

The death is reported of Mr David Murray, merchant, and formerly politician at Adelaide. W. W. Read, the Surrey cricketer, is dead.

Ford Selby and Sir Ernest Satow have been appointed members of the permanent 'international Court of Arbitration at the Hague. An invention by Mr A, Austin, a Victorian, which, it is understood, enables guns to be sighted in the roughest of weather, has been submitted to the War Office. The Duchess of Cumberland was taken suddenly ill at Gmunden and has undergone a successful operation New York, January 7.

The Superior Court in California upheld the contention of the Williamsburg City Insurance Company that it was not liable for losses attributable to the earthquake. Mexican advices report that all on board the City of Panama, wrecked at Pescodoro, are safe. Colombo, January 7.

Three hours after the seismograph at Baibach recorded a great submarine disturbance oh Friday, tremendous tidal waves visited the southern coast of Ceylon. The phenomena were similar to those following the eruption of Krakatoa in 1888.

Bankok, January 7. A fire in the Chinese quarter at Bankok (Siam) did damage to the extent of £583,333.

Sydney, January 8. A white load tin filled with stones, powder and dynamite, with a fuse detonator attached, was found under a private residence at Mosman Bay, but no attempt had been made to explode it. The police view the matter seriously. _ An attempt was made on Saturday night to rob the pursers safe on the .Sierra containing 1000 sovereigns. Nothing yyas obtained, Adelaide, January 8. The Australian Asßoaiatloa for the Advancement of Science has opened with Dr. Howitt as president.