GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8762, 13 March 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Press Association. —Copyright. New York, March 12. A boat capsized on the Sacramento River, California, drowning twenty-two Greek labourers. Poet Said, March 12. Fifteen hundred Turkish troops on board a transport refused to undergo quarantine at Suez, alleging that they were foodless, and were allowed to proceed to Port Said. Sofia, March 12. Tho Bulgarian Premier, while watting in the Boris garden at Sofia with M. Genadiff, Minister of Commerce, was wounded by a would-be assassin, who was arrested. New Yoek, March 12. Weyorhauser, an immensely rich lumber king, has disappeared in California. Ho was seen on Friday at Santa Barbara. It is feared that he has been kidnapped. Sydney, March 12. A man has been attacked by plague in North Sydney. Paeis, March 12. The death has occurred of M. Casimir Perier, who was President of France from June 1894-January 1895. The newspapers declare that his resignation placated the Kaiser and saved France. The General Staff had intercepted German couriers with despatches and also intercepted M. Perier's despatch, wherein he apologised to tho Kaiser. Jolibois, a workman at Clichy, near Paris, attempted to strangle a woman, killed a policeman and a waiter and wounded tlireo persons before he was arrested. London, March 12. Lords Eosebery and Curzon are candidates for the Chancellorship of Oxford University. The steamer Dakota, which was wrecked at Noshima, is ripped open for two-thirds of her length. The loss to London Insurance Companies amounts to £500,000 if part of the cargo is saved. Dr. Elliot Smith, of Sydney, has been made a fellow of the Royal Society. Madrid, March 12. l „ The Spanish Conservatives havo ' triumphed at the elections, .-,.:- ■ Berlin, March 12. ;, German newspapers are beginning to' declare they have no further interest in tbo realization of the Bagdad railway scheme which is already Gallicised.