CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8743, 18 February 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association. —Copyrighi London, February 17.

John Belcher, architect, one of the experts called in to examine St. Paul’s Cathedral, declares that subsidence should be dealt with as soon as possible. The personality of the. late David Murray, of the firm of D. and W. Murray, has been sworn at £200,57*9. He left £16,000 to charities, iuclud£3ooo to estabish a print room in the Adelaide Art Gallery, £SOOO to the Presbyterian Church, £2OOO to tho South Australian University, £IOOO each to the School of Mines and Young Men’s Christian Association.

The Westralian loan closes on Wednesday. Six months interest will be payable on June Ist. Count Tolstoi’s eon has been indieted for treason for publishing a political pamphlet in the papers. Mr Izard has been gazetted Liberian Consul in Wellington. Melbourne, February 18. Another 1460 z nugget has been discovered at the Poseidon rush. B eishake. February 17. The Premier declares ho has no objection to the Canadian liners being diverted to New Zealand, but Queensland’s subsidy must stop. Sydney, February 18. Bishop Grimes continued his voyage to New Zealand on the Monowai. Cardinal Moran states that the Irish- envoys, on their recent visit, raised £22,000 in Australasia. London, February IG. A giant sun spot,' 108,000 miles long and 30,000 miles broad, has been discovered, i Beblin, February 16, A Russian has been sentenced at Leipsic to three years’ for espionage.