CABLE NEWS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8780, 6 April 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, April 5. Obituary—Sir Henry Cuthbert, Legislative Councillor, and a member of several Ministries, retat 78. Arrived, at noon —Manuka. Mr Carruthors promised a deputation to seriously consider tho holding of an international exhibition in Sydney in 1910 at an estimated cost of .£300,000. Newcastle, April 6. Arrived —Wairuna, from New Zealand. Sydney, April 6.

A movement is afoot to establish woollen mills in Sydney. A capital of £IOO,OOO, it is nudorstoed, is required. The amount will ho subscribed half locally and half in Loudon.

Reports by a Gorman steamer state that cannibalism is rampant in the Sir Charles Hardy group of Islands. The Governor and party penetrated tire bush and discovered abundant proofs of cannibalistic feasts. All the villages were destroyed as a punishment. Eleven ringleaders were arrested who are described as the worst lot of cannibals in the South Seas. London, April 6. The ship Brunei, Newcastle to Chili, lias been reinsured for 55 guineas. Queen Alexandra lias left Loudon to join the King at Toulon. Melbouene, April 6. The first good rains this year are falling. Launceston, April 6. r • Five of-the bodies of those lost cSi the Alice have been discovered.

Adelaide, April G. g A unique position has arisen in connection with the wreck of the Mildura. After the crew left a resident of Onslow boarded the ship and claims to bo in possession. According to the shipping law the vessel cannot be regarded as abandoned while anything alive is aboard, and some of the cattle are stiil alive. The local manager of the A.U.S.N. Company and Lloyd’s surveyor havo since boarded the vessel, and both parties claim possession, and withstand the horrors' of decomposing cattle in order to substantiate their claims.