CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8894, 14 August 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association. —Copyright. London, August 13. In the Lords the Butter Bill was read a third time.

Sir Horaoo/Tozer, in a letter to the Times, corrects some public miscou-1 ceptions regarding British labour on tho Queensland canelields. Lieutenant-General Sir John French, commanding tho First Army Corps, has been appointed InspectorGeneral of tho Forces. LieutenantGoueral Smith-Dorrion, commanding tho Fourth Division of tho Indian Army, succeeds Sir John French. Joachim, tho violinist, is dying. Melbourne, August 14. Orchard, who was arrested for throwing a box of dynamite clown ■tho shaft of the Extendod Hustler mine, whicli wrecked a cage, made an unsuccessful attempt to stranglo himself iu his cell.

It is reported from Bendigo that a young man, who was refused work, throw a case of dvnamite down ;tho Extended Hustler's Mine shaft, lhero was no explosion, but tho cage was wrecked. The gporpetrator lias been arrested.