CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8824, 28 May 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. Berlin, May 27. Germany is constructing a torpedo boat larger than those of any other nation. London, May 27. The Standard states that the Government is considerably reducing the staffs of gunnery trainers at Whale Island and the torpedo training school at Vernon. The ‘Chronicle states that the Government’s plan in dealing with the Lords will provide that all vetoed measures kept on the Commons minutes should be sent up again without repassing all stages, and that any accumulation of rejected bills be sent up in bulk on the eve of the general election. Stdnbt, May 27. Tho plague patient has died. Brisbane, May 27.

The Premiers’ Conference has opened. The proceedings are private. Mr Kidston is presiding. Hobart, May 2S.

In connection with the Orumpe murder, it is significant that some time ago inquiries were made at a registry office in the name of J. Langford, from Auckland, with regal d to the marriage of Moriarity. London, May 27.

Pollard and Ward defeated Sharp and Doust, Sydney players, in the open doubles at the tenuis tournament at Surbiton, by 8 sets to 3, winning the final The Hubert Bran ton Company, large dealers in the Bio Tiuto copper market, are defaulters on the Stock Exchange. Ottawa, May 27.

Two hundred and fifty Glasgow men who went to Canada to work on tho grand trunk Pacific railway works are now stranded and workless at Portage La Prairie. > Calcutta, May 27.

Sixty-nine convictions were recorded in connection with the Easter Bengal disturbances and 150 are under trial.

New York, May 27. A tornado killed 11 and injured 60 at Fort Worth, Texas. St. Petersburg, May 27.

The Duma has voted seventeen and a half million roubles for famine relief.