CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9111, 2 April 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association—Copyright. Received April 2, 8.15 a.m. London, April 1

Sidney, son of Sir Charles Nicholson, of Sydney, has been appointed organist of Canterbury Cathedral out of 100 candidates.

The Amalgamated Society of Engineers will not be the Trades’ Union Congress to be held at Nottingham in September. Vienna and Austria have decided to accept Sir E. Grey’s proposals for reform in Macedonia.

Rome, April 1,

Giomatta, a railway clerk at Ohirasso, has absconded with £7OOO.

Newcastle, April 2 Sailed : Hauro to for the Bluff. Melbourne, April 2

The Federal Government has received a reply to the cable despatched to London that the canned meat reported as re-shipped to America was stock withdrawn by the Admiralty, Government having sold the surplus old stock at low prices. The Minister *of Customs says the facts do not disclose any additional opening for Australian preserved meats.

Melbourne, April 1

The Senate has reduced the duty on pianos from 30 and 25 per cent, to 25 and 20 per cent., the second figure in each case being the preferential rate for British made pianos. New York, April 1.

Reuter’s New York correspondent says that the colliery owners in various parts of the United States intend to close their mines, pending an agreement as to the scale of wages. The closing will throw a quarter of a million men idle.