CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9115, 7 April 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association—Copyright. Lisbon, April 6.

In the elections in Portugal, troops fired on "disorderly crowds at some of the polling stations at Lisbon, killing and wounding several. New York, April 6.

The arbitration treaties between Britain, Norway, and the United States, following on the lines of the other treaties recently negotiated, have been signed at Washington. Capetown, April 6.

The Ministerialists gained 17 seats in the election fcr the Cape Assembly. Received April 7, 8.3 a.m. London, April 6.

James Calcutt, builder, and Joseph Cade, coal merchant, have been remanded on bail on charges of fraud upon the Mile End Board*o£ Guardians. Received April 7, 8.58 a.m. Berlin April 6.

Duke Henrich Borwin, of Meck-lenburg-Schwerin, has been compelled to leave the army owing to fiuanical and enormous debts to money-lenders. Vienna, April 6.

Count and Countess Szeohenyi (nee Vanderbilt) asked the Buda Pesth police for protection as they receive hundreds of demands for money daily, and thousands of adventurers are thronging the hotel. Melbourne, April 7.

Owing to private business Sir R. A. J. Talbot has resigned the Governorship of the State, and returns to England early in July. Sir H. Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, represents the Commonwealth at the Postal Conference at Lisbon. It is expected he will be instructed to oppose any withdrawal of the concession made in 1904, pn the way of extra facilities for transmission of code words.