GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8756, 5 March 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Press Association.—Copyright. Sydney, March 4. At tho paying over of the stakes Stanbury declared that if Towns would row him, Towns would not row such an easy length against him as ho did against Daman, adding that ho (Stanbury) had lots of backing to row Towns in Australia. Towns did not reply. London, March 4. King Edward leaves London today on a visit to Biarritz. The Lady Pirrio, a 11,000 ton Royal Mail steamer, which it is reported will bo used for the South American trade, has boon launched at Belfast. Obituary—Donald Sullivan, M.P. for Westmeath South. Sydney, March 4. The President of tho Arbitration Court, in delivering an award, said in consequence of recent discoveries tho area of tiro operations of the court had been reduced almost to the vanishing point. The barque Industrial Arbitration had made a brave show at its launching, but the. Act had been riddled with shell, broken fore and aft, and reduced to a sinking hulk. No pilot could navigate such a craft. New Yoek, March 4. The United States Congress has passed the Ship Subsidy Billaftor omitting, inter alia, subvention to Hill and Harriman and tho Pacific Steamship lines. Sydney, March 4. Mr Carruthcrs declines to make any statement regarding suggested State guarantee of the mail contract. London, March 4. The Yadorland, which was recently in collision, has boon refloated. Paris, March 4. Spain aud Franco have agreed to construct railways through the Pyrenees. Calcutta, March 4. Tho Ameer has engaged European experts to start woollen mills at Kabul. Amsterdam, Merck 4. One of the despatch hags in the possession of Mr Herbert, the King’s Messenger, who Avar, lost on the wrecked steamer Berlin, has boon recovered empty at the Hook of Holland.