CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8733, 6 February 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association.—Copyright Calcutta, February 5.

Tho Ameer i;- imraenrely enjoying his visit to Calcutta, Ilia disregard of conventionalities and free manners are astound.ng everyone, Morocco, February 5.

Tho Zenega tribe ambushed a French hydrographical mission in Morocco on tho river Scbu. A friendly native horseman enabled tho mission to escape to Rabat, though some were wounded.

Melbourne, February G

The Railway Commissioners have bean re-appoioled for three years at their present salaries.

A mi.i’. February 6.

The Got concluded the purchase of tho city tranH /or £280,000.

Brisbane, February 0.

Mr Denham, Minister for Agriculture, has resigned owing to a disagreement as to policy. Kcgotia- . tiqns are proceeding for an alliance . of the Denham and Philp parties. , Nkw York, February 6. [ An explosion in tho Davis colliery i in y/ost Virginia, killed SO men, | mostly foreigners. Lo.noon, February o. A fire in Wood street, Oheapsido, destroyed sovoral warehouses full of I Manchester goods, silks, and woollens. Tho damage is estimated at £‘l-80,000. The Admiralty lias decided that the Cape and East Indian stations shall co-operate, tho command of the former to bo senior to tho latter. Tho ships of Urn ,tvvo stations are to bo interchangeable. The changes are made on tho grounds of health. Cerebro spinal meningitis at Belfast and Glasgow is still spreading. Tho Unionist Party at Perth, in recognition of his personal worth as a citizen, wifi not oppose tho election of Sir Robert Pillar ('Liberal), in succession to Jl. Wallace, wlro has : been appointed chairman of the London County sessions. London, February 5. Reuter's correspondent at Capetown reports that a strong body of influential persons, representing all the South African colonics, and of ail shades of politics, have pledged themselves to strenuously promote tho federation of Louth Africa, Tho Mansion House Jamaica Fund has reached £48,000. Tho iSonato of tho University of .Dublin has adopted a resolution declaring that the Hon. J. Bryce’s scheme would bo fatal to tho best interests of a Liberal University education besides being unjust to Trinity College.