CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8880, 3 August 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Prose Association. —Association. London, August 2.

Tho Royal Academy of ’ Music awarded Victor G. Booth, of New he aland, tho Frederick Westlake Memorial Prize for pianoforte playing and also sight reading. Lord Kelvin, addressing tho British Association at Leicester, declared that it seemed almost absolutely certain that there are many different kinds of atoms, each eternally invariable in its-own specific quality. It is reported that the Hamburgh Woermauu and Germau-Australian line of steamers are -.charging the same rates to South African ports as the British companies. The English Judges have decided against the claim of the monks to the worn ‘ ‘ Chartreuse, ’ ’ to be applied to the liqueur they manufacture, because the now undertaking at Tarragona, in Spain, rendered necessary by their leaving Franco, is not a continuation of their old business in France.

Obituary; David Christie Murray, novelist, aetat 60. In tho Commons, discussing the Foreign Office vote, Sir E. Grey foreshadowed a revision of .the sentences passed on tho assailants of British officers at Deuihawi, in Egypt, last year, as soon as it is clear that clemency will not bo interpreted by the Moslems as weakness.

CONSTANTINOX’LE, August 3. i A baud of 40, commanded by ; Nickolits, one of tho Servian rogi- : cido officers, lias been annihilated at, Lettovo by Turkish regulars. The baud iuchuled a number of Servian | officers. •

Colonel Elliot, a British officer at-: tached to flip Macedonian geudar- j merie, was wounded in the leg ' dpt-; ing a fight, repelling a Bulgarian : baud at Gnredjik, near Drama. Sydney, August 3, ! Broken Hill has been prodlaimod a city. ! There is a prospect of a building boom in Sydney. Works at present in charge of the Government Architect’s Department, w.ijl cost nearly _ two millions. ' Tno Federal' Government erects large stores to cost £30,000. : ; The mflpenga epidemic in the city is subsiding. ‘ ' ' i The police are baffled over the Qniriudi tragedy. There is no trace of Tofft. j Melbourne, August 3. ! The Bounties’ Bill was road a third time, The amount appropriated for bounties was reduced from £530,000 to £4l $,500 by the omission of items. Sir W. Lyuo cleverly parried qnos- ’ tious regarding Government’s iuteu-1 tjpns in regard to the liayal agr§«j- [ ment. At the horse sale la*o New Zealand horse. Lord Dol’aval, brought Ift) guineas. Brisbane, August 3.

It has heeu discovered that'a case, containing Treasury note forms, has beau pillaged' and two bundles, eacli containing a thousand' notes, are missing. Being unsigned they arc valueless. | Capetown, August 2. Tho chances of refloating the Russian ship Orient, ashore on the South African coast, are considered doubt ful. Tonquin, August 2. Tho French Resident Annum has confined King Tauhtar to his palace and constituted tho Minister of Justice regent. Rpr.BAN, August 2. Tho Natal Government has decided not to request tho Imperial Government to make any further refunds i 'l connection with tho South African war.