CABLE NEWS.
Press Association. —Copyright. Pretoria, August 30,
Earl Selborno laid the foundation stone of the Transvaal University College at Johannesburg. Tokyo, August 30. The losses in the fire at Hakodate amount to £3,000,000 sterling, and 00,000 persons are rendered homeless. Sydney, August 30. Arrived, 4 p.m., Zealandia. Sailed, Indraghiri, for Auckland. London, August 30. Indians in the Transvaal have petitioned King Edward to disallow the Indian Immigration Bill, which permits the deportation of passive resisters, and ask the Imperial Exchequer to compensate them if disallowance is impossible. Senator Pnlsford, of Sydney, writing to the Times, suggests that Mr Lucas! department bo re-named the Sister Countries’ Department. Bucharest, August 30.
The King has amnestied 8000 concerned in the recent Roumanian revolt, but he refused to pardon 200 priests, officers and murderers. Vienna, August 39. King Edward casually visited £a cafe chautaut at Marienbad.and withdrew as a protest against indecency.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8909, 31 August 1907, Page 2
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149CABLE NEWS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8909, 31 August 1907, Page 2
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