CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8964, 2 November 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. New York, November 1. The Navy Department has decided to increase the width of the locks of the Panama Canal. An Armenian named Hampart Zooimian lias been convicted by a New York jury for murdering Tavshanjian, a wealthy Armenian merchant, Berlin, November 1. Doctor Carl Han has been sentenced to death, and his mother-in-law committed to penal servitude for life. New York, November 1. The United States PoscmasterGeneral has decided that tho Lusitania and Mauretania instead of the American lino shall convey the Saturday’s New York mails to Britiau. Loudon, November 1. In tho Mokau Estate case the Judge refused to stay action in Jones v. Flowers’ executors and declining to recognise the action as frivolous, directed the case to proRome, November I. Floods in Northern Italy have caused £1,000,000 damage to embankments and hydraulic works. Many people are houseless. At Piacenza several fatalities arc reported and Pavia and Cremona are inundated. 3nda Pesth, November 1.

Political and religious disturbance in the village of Oservoua, Hungary, led to a conflict with gendarmes, during which thirteen Slovaks were killed, and eight severely, and 80 slightly injured. Angry debates thereon have taken place in the Austrian Parliament.

Loudon, November 1. Plague lias appeared at Tunis and a fresh outborak is reported at Oran and two other Mediterranean ports. Morocco, November 1. Advice from Saffl state that Mulai Hafidl in finding that the tribes are deserting him wishes to be reconciled to Abdul Aziz provided he is appointed Governor of Marrakesh. Berlin, November i. The Kaiser is suffering from a chill aud is confined to hod.

Tho Minister of Foreign Affairs will accompany him on his visit to England. St. Petersburg, November 1.

The arrest of military clerks at St. Petersburg have revealed a plot to kill with bombs tho whole Military Council, including the Minister for War at its weekly sitting.