CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8745, 20 February 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. New York, February 19. A great boom has occurred in copper mines. In New York many of the wildest schemes are being promoted. Shares in Calumet and Heila mines are quoted at a thousand dollars. It is reported in Now York that the revolutionary, General Pacebes, and eighteen followers,* including three Americans, have been executed at Caracas. London, February 19, Lord Elgin declines to make pollingday in the Transvaal a holiday. A Queenslander, writing to the Globe, asserts that New Hebredian girls are often bought from native chiefs for a gun or an axe and handed to New Ciledonian convicts. An inquest has been opened on Jack S. Layton, who came from Australia as doctor on the steamer Wakoal. It is supposed that he committed suicide by taking poison at Kensington, fearing the consequences of breaking his coni a t to return to Australia as doctor.

Bayner appeared at Marylebone Police Court, charged with the murder Of Mr Whiteloy. Ho was remanded. Melbourne, February 20. Another 121 oz nugget has been found at the Poseidon rush.' The latest finds indicate the discovery of a now lead. The State Cabinet has been rearranged. Sir Alexander Peacock joins as Chief Secretary and Mr Mackin non Boyd as Honorary Minister. Mr Langdon, Chief Secretary, retires. Sydney, February 20. Tho Chief Justice, in granting an appeal which further whittled down the powers of the Arbitration Court, said he found by experience the jurisdiction of the Act was very limited, and that instead of strikes being put to an end, they were as prevalent as ever if not more so.

The annual report of the Benevolent Society indicates a large decrease in poverty. The condition of the poor in Sydney is {more satisfactory than for many years. Captain Sinclair, master of the Moruya, claims that tho grounding of the steamer was due to the change of the light at Ciifty Island from red to white. ■