CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8943, 8 October 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association.—Copyright. Tokio, October 7. Japan is unfavourable to a formal revision of the Canadian treaty and prefers to administratively check the rush of Japanese across the Pacific. London, Ooteher 7. The Suevic’s new bow weighs 3000 tons, and is 212 feet long- Uniting the two parts will occupy a couple of months. [The Suevio went ashore on the English coast, and her bow becoming fast the fore part of the ship was cut off with dynamite and the rest towed to dock]. Lord Coleridge has been appointed a Judge of the High Court. A conference at Manchester _of various Trades Unions, representing 138,000 workers, approved the principle of federation, and adjourned to enable the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (which was informally represented) to send delegateß - . , Robert Thomas Wood, artist, has been arrested for the wilful murder of Dimmock, cabled on September 80th. Ho admits that he wrote a postcard, making an appointment with deceased two nights before the tragedy, but pleads an alibi. Paris, October 7. There is friction between Franco and Spain relative to the policy of Oasblauca. Stone's, October 8.

All Guy, gardener, ran amok at Barraba, He stabbed another Chinaman and attacked Sergeant Maloney, who was compelled to shoot Ah. Guy twice, who died of his wounds. Adelaide, October 8. Twenty-eight shearers are_ suffering from ptomaine poisoning at Canovvie. The attack is supposed to he due to the consumption of pressed beet. Brisbane, October S. The British rifle team has been officially welcomed by the Mayor. Ottawa, October 7. The reduced postage has doubled the volume of British periodicals entering Canada. New Yof.k, October 7. A cauldron of molten metal upset in tbo Butlor steel works, Pennsylvania, and killed four men and fatally injured 20. During a political meeting at Watorbnry, Connecticut, the floor collapsed, precipitating 150 into a brook below. Many were seriously injured.