MISCELLANEOUS CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8711, 10 January 1907, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. Melbourne, January 9. Notification has been received from Captain Collins, Federal representative in London, that commissions for Austrat lian and New Zealand medical officers in the Navy are available for a further term of three years. Sydney, January 9. • |gA case of plague is reported. The victim was employed in a warehouse in the centre of the city. Sydney, January 9. Arrived—4.ls, Monowai. Sailed—2, Wimmera. Melboubnb, January 9 Arrived—Speculant from Kaipara. New York, January 9. Mr Taft, addressing the Army Committee at Washington, urged an increase of artillery. Colombo’, January 9. Stevenson’s copra mills at Colombo have been burned. The damage is estimated at £50,000 sterling. Pekin, January 9. The Chinese Commissioners who were sent to Manchuria recommended tho Government to re-acquiro the lost railway, mining, and other privileges granted to the Russians and Japanese. London, January 9. Edward Demarney, editor of Judy, has been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for having published improper advertisements. Advices from Camborne, Cornwall, state that a London syndicate has purchased a number of Cornish mines and contemplates an increased and more economical output. Capetown, January 9. There were 52,889 Chinese on the Rand on December 31.