CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9023, 10 December 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. Received Dec. 10, 1.0 a.m.

Sydney, Dec. 9. Alderman Thos. Hughes has been rc-olected Lord Mayor of Sydney. (This will make liis third uou-cou-secutive year of office). Arrived.—Star of Now Zealand, from Dunedin.

The Fifeshiro from Liverpool direct, brings KiS immigrants for Now Zealand.

The special Court consisting of Judge Haydon and owners’ and minors’ representatives to deal vftth tlie coal trouble, has held a meeting at Newcastle and adjourned till Thursday. A cable from Noumea announces that the Anglo-French New Hebrides convention was proclaimed at Villa on December 2nd in the presence of the Governors of Fiji and Now Caledonia. Melbourne, Dec. 9. The House of Representatives negatived Sir Wm. Llyno’s proposed duty of 10 per cent, on paper for printing newspapers, and (id per lb. on magazines containing advertisements equal to more than one-fifth of the printed matter. The House placed botli on the free list. Loudon. Dec. 9.

A collision occurred between the steamer Solieldestrooiu and the colonial trading barque Forfarshire off Folkestone. Ten of the Scheldestroom’s crew wore drowned. Received Dec. 9, 11.22 ]xm. Paris, Doe. S). Van Dvck’s famous picture. The Raising of the Cross, valued at £20,000, has been stolen from the church of Notre Dame. Constantinople, December !). One of Mr Abbott’s kidnappers at Salouica has been soutouceed to 15 years’ penal servitude, another to IS years, and eight to 10 years. St Petersburg, December A Owing to the Bill to Germanise the province of Posen many Warsaw firms are boycotting Gorman goods. Several Russian 'physicians claim that radium cured General Poehel of cancer. General Pociicl has signed a certificate to this effect. Received Dec. 10, 10.35 a. in. Sydney, December 10.

John Brown, inmate of Liverpool Asylum, has iliorl, aged Hi). Ho arrived in the State 87 years ago, and had served in the navy. The owners of the Ingeborg have commenced an action against! the owners of the Arawatta, claiming compensation for loss of the lugoborg by collision on August 14th. 'The Special Court closed nine hotels at Broken Hill under the local option vote.