CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9018, 4 December 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association—Copyright. Received Dec. 4, 0.23 a.m. Vienna, Dec. 3. Poles at Lemberg made a demonstration against Prussia's Polish legislation and burnt the Kaiser in effigy, and smashed the windows of the hotel where the German Consul is residing. London, Dec. 3. The Star newspaper was ordered to pay Mr Hunt, tho Town Clerk of Westminster, £BOO, for a libel on him by stating that lie was obstructing the progressive agents during the election. Now York, Dec. 3. Thaw's trial has been postponed till January. London, Dec. 3. The Times' Capetown correspondent mentions that there is a halt in the tendency to emigrate to Australia. Returning workmen declare that they prefer their chances in South Africa. Received Dec. i, 0.34 a.m. Sydney, December 4. The birthrate in the metropolitan area for November was the highest for ten years. The special tribunal to deal with the Newcastle coal dispute has been officially constituted, aud is expected to sit on Monday. Hot weather was experienced throughout the State yesterday. At Bourke the thermometer was at 112. Melbourne, December 4. The House carried heavy reductions on tho duties on glassware, Government being thrice defeated. The Licenses Reduction Board has prdered 24 hotels to be closed in the Metropolitan area. The Government Statist estimates the wheat yield at 12,840,000 bushels; about 8,000,000 will bo absorbod local iy. Perth, December 4. In an inter-tribal fight at Leonara one black was killed and two seriously injured. Bombay, December 3. Some miscreant has defaced General Nicholson's statue at Delhi. Jjondon, December 3. A mineral train smashed three coaches of a passenger train at Porth Junction on tho Taff Yale Line, injuring thirty-one passengers. Brussels, December 3. The Belgian Congo State plenipo- ■ tontiariers Uavt> signed the annexation 'treaty.' '" '" • Now York, December 3. An explosion at Naomi Colliery, Pennsylvania, pntoinbcd 60. Twenty-five of the in) odd niiners entombed owing to the explosion, espaped by an air shaft, but on emerging iifc the surface died from the effeGts of tho fumes, It is feared all have perished.