MISCELLANEOUS CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8721, 23 January 1907, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLE NEWS.

— ;0; ■ Press Association —Copyright. Pickin', January 0. Lootbung, chief of the native police at Shanghai, has been arrested and sent to Nanking for conniving at tho smuggling of arm s to rebels for use in the Middle Yang-tse region: T/iSin in, January 22. The steam trawler Mora Niven sails next week for New Zealand wiia a Grimsby crew. Tho Turakina conveys to New Zealand the Emperor Joseph's present ol two bucks and four does. A quantity of Austrian forage was taken aboard for the voyage. Mr Dillon, at Hallma-doo, said if the Nationalist Party were united the Government would be sure to concede wba.t would prove to be a groat instrument towards the completion of Ireland s emancipation.

Xn\v York, January -1. A truck of gunnowdcr :U Sandford, in Indiana, exploded, wrecking a passenger train in the siding. Nineteen perished. Some were' cremated and thirty injured. A rail'vay collision occurred during a fog at Fowler's, Indiana, and Id were killed. Sydney, January 22. Mr IL-id states then; is no reasonable excuse for Parliament postponing its business while Mr Donkin is \ isitiiin' London. Members would he 100 patriotic to make any party move during the Premier’s absence on Commonwealth business. The .lion. J. Carruthors, Premier of Now South "Wales, says he has no intention of resigning while his health lasts. Mki.hou use, January 22. The owner of the .Heather has formally claimed the La Carabine Cup. London, January 22. Mr Gladstone declines to take outside opinion respecting the Edalji case. Public meetings are being arranged in favor of Sir A. Conan Doyle’s agitation. Half a battalion of iufaatry will replace the Third Warwicks at Pietermaritzburg. Sir William Crookes and two professors of Freiburg University, have discovered a process, for extracting nitric acid from the atmosphere, rendering it possible to fertilize wheat lands, greatly increasing the yield. Two additional West Ham guardians have been arrested for misuse of public funds. T’-.c Idov. Campbell declines to resign unless the congregation of the City Temple Church request him to do so. Six minor Loudon music halls under one management have closed. The musicians and employees struck as the result of a dispute with the manager regarding salaries for extra performance. Little Tieh and Arthur Roberts are included among the strikers. Sydney, January 23. A relief fund has been opened to assist sufferers at Cooktown. Among new proposals to be submitted at the annual conference of the Political Labour League is ona giving the Executive control of the supervision of all selections of labour candidates for Metropolitan electorates. Svdney, January 23. The City Council has passed a resolution in favor of holding an international exhibition in Sydney in 1910. Brisbane, January 23. During the cyclone the schooner Marion was wrecked TO miles north of Cooktown. The crew wore saved. Cape Bedford mission station was wrecked by the wind. Melbourne, January 23, Mr Mauger has circularised ship building firms in the Commonwealth to learn their views about building coastal destroyers and torpedo boats in Australia..