MISCELLANEOUS CABLE NEWS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8732, 5 February 1907, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLE NEWS

Press Association —Copyright. London, February 4. Damages and costs have been awarded to native dockers recently flogged at Lagos as cabled on December 6.

Numerous skating fatalities have occurred in England. 'Charles’ Carr Ashley. Iqdc of Kingstpn-on-Thaines,has bpqueathed £70,000 to the Royal Lifeboat Institution.

The Earl pf Portaiiington, an Irish peer, has manied Winifreds, a daughter of Mr G. S. Yuill, the American millionaire.

Perth police captured Gibbons, a gaol breaker, in the act of attempting to dynamite a merchant’s safe in an office adjoining a railway bridge. They extinguished the fuse connected wAL an explosive, which was sufficient to wrick the bridge. Sir Evan Maegregor,* Permanent Secretary to the "Admiralty, is retiring, and will be succeeded by Charles Inigo Thomas, Assistant Secretary. Obituary.—The Marchioness Florence Cecilia Hastings, who eloped while betrothed to Mr Chaplin. Sydney, February 5.

The first Australian Dental Congress has opened and is largely atThe steamer Kent made an unsuccessful search fpr the missing dredger Walrus. Sydney, February 4. The hitcr-State shipping trouble has been settled, a meeting of the Wharf Labourers’ Union having endorsed the agreement arrived at with the Steamship Owners Associafinp The Kempscy plague patient L dead. ; London, February 4.

T)io Admiralty has ordered id; goa-going warships to bo fitted with ethergraphs, auj to transmit regular reports of the weather as long as they are able to communicate, with . , ’ 1 ---~ AtrtPtl 1 a view to aiuuig 0 Office, The Union Lank is offering ,5200,000 city of Wellington 4 per cent, loan debentures at 101 to redeem the G per cent. 1887 loan.