CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 2037, 28 December 1907, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. Received Dec. 28, 7.40 a.m. London, December 27. Captain E. F. Gaunt, sou of the late Justice Gaunt, of Victoria, has been appointed to the command of the battleship Majestic. Madrid, December 27. The newspaper Imparcial urges King Alfonso to visit the South American Republics. Bombay, December 27. Two North-Western trains at Lahore collided and 20 persons, including 4 Europeans, were killed. The statioumaster has been arrested. Hamburg', December 27. A ship named Disinfector is exclusively engaged here in .fumigating vessels and killing rats by Professor Nocht’s system. Brussels, December 37. Layson has been sentenced to 31 mouths’ imprisonment for bank robbery and the receivers of the money to from 3 to 24 mouths. Loudon, December 27. Captain E. F. Gaunt, sou of the late Justice Gaunt, of Victoria, has been appointed to command the battleship Majestic. Adelaide, December 28. The motorists Duton and Aunger were-uuable to get beyond Tennent’s Greek owing to rain and have abandoned the journey till the wet season is past. Launceston, December 28. The yacht Thistle has arrived. There is no sign of the other yachts competing in the ocean race. The weather is thick and a heavy gale blowing. Melbourne, December 38. Victorian flocks in the past three years increased from ten millions to thirteen million sheep.