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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9125, 21 April 1908, Page 5

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Press Association. —Copyright. Received April 20, 8.47 p.m. London, April 20. To-day King Edward and Queen Alexandra start on a fortnight’s visit to Copenhagen, Stockholm,_and Christiana. Mr Chamberlain is making 'steady progress and takes long walks. Although successive bulletins [[do not'.indioate a marked change, it is acknowledged that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is '"“gradually becoming weaker. New York, April 20. Mr Cullom, chairman of the Senate’s Committee ou foreign relations, has drafted a resolution empowering President Roosevelt to adopt stringent action with Venezuela in the event of the rejection of a further aud final proposal regarding the Bermudez Asphalt Company case. New York, April 18. A strike of 2,000 colliers has been ended. All the strikers resume work on practically the old scale of wages. Loudon, April 18. The Board of Trade will intervene in the North Eastern dispute. Mass meetings of North-Eastern railwaymen rejected the suggestions of conciliation, aud decided to tender their notices of intention to cease work.

King Edward drove to Downing Street, and inquired as to the health of Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman. Owing to depression, 1,200 employees of Singer’s Sewing Machine Works at Kilbowie, Glasgow, have been dismissed. -

Reuter states that a five weeks’ trial is being arranged in connection with the Indian telegraphs, of the system which Mr Newlands (the expert lent by the British Post Office) devised, and which has caused so much discontent among the staff. Paris, April 18. The lock-out in Paris has terminated, but the question of hours is still unsettled. London, April 30. The decrease in the Wesleyan Methodists is the largest for half a century, namely full 4392, trial members 1197, juniors 2455. Sir George Farrar, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, and Mr Quinn have resigned their seats in the Inter-Oolonial Council owing to Lord Selborne’s instructions that its railway committee should immediately enforce the Railway Commissioner’s recommendations. Caluctta, April 20. A expedition of 1200 men is leaving Peshawar to operate against the Moesmaudes, a Pathan tribe, between Peshawar and Kohat, who have recently been very restless in raiding and sniping. , The Indian telegraph strike has ended. Government has appointed a committee to inquire into the grievances. New York, April 20. Mr Longworth has introduced a Biill |appropriat.ing £1,000,000 to provide residences for American Ambassadors in Paris and elsewhere. The Underwriters assert that they possess proof that the Boston fire was the result of incendiarism. Fourteen bodies have been recovered and 80 are still missing, and are believed to have burned. London, April 30, Messrs Leech, Harrison and Forwood, big Liverpool shipowners,

have assigned their estate. . As the result of jealousy William Bucholtz, a lace merchant, churchwarden of St. Paul’s Church, committed suicide after murdering ;a married woman named Power, who cohabited with him at Staines.