CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8810, 11 May 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association.—Copyright. New Yoek, May 10. Moyer and Pettibone, officials of the Minors' Federation, will be tried with Haywood in connection with tho Stuenenberg murder. Many threatening letters have been sent to jurors by miners. London, May 10.

A number of firms', largely interested in electrical enterprises in Australia, purpose interviewing Mr Bent to ask for reassurances since they doubt the character of the security they possess owing to the varying nature of the laws. The shipping companies have agreed to continue the present freights on Victorian butter.

The Cunard line is enquiring as to the prospects of Australian trade. Somersetshire cricketers and their friends presented Mr S. M. J. Woods with ah address, portrait and £1620 on his relinquishing the captaincy. The model of Louis Brennau's mono-railway at the conversazione of the Royal Society attracted much atentiou. The cars their equilibrium by the use of gyronscopes. Prince Fushima has been presented with the Freedom of the City aud was accorded a great popular welcome everywhere. It is reported that the report of the committee of inquiry is favourable to Bdalji, in connection with the Wryley cattle maiming case. Sidney, May 10. '

Mr Carruthers' policy has generally given satisfaction though Labour members oppose the proposals to remit income tax and reduce the number of members of the Assembly.

The congestion at Newcastle is shown by the. fact that -yesterday 73 sailing vessels and nine steamers were lying in the harbour. A shin, arrived front Iquique, reports that when off Pitcairn Island several boats laden with fruit visited the vessel and obtained provisions and tea in exchange. They stated that all the inhabitants of the island wore in good health. Mad hid, May 10. ™ Tho Queen of Spain has had a son.

Capetown, May 10,

Seven hundred stranded Australians embarked at Capetown to return to Australia. Only the destitute and those who have married coloured women now remain.

MAORI AFFAIRS. Per Pess Association,

Auckland, May 10,

The committee appointed by the great Maori meeting at Waahi failed to unite/ under one head. Mahuta and the Arawas withdrew from she conference as a protest against the effort to appoint a deputation to be sent to England in the event of the Legislature '-ignoring the Maori petition. Those who acknowledged the Mana of Mahuta were eager he should head the deputation, but the Arawas objected on the ground that he was a party to passing some .'of the laws objected to in the petition. Otherwise' the meeting appears to have worked well for the future relations of the rival tribes.