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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9133, 30 April 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. Received April 30, 8.15 a.m. Teheran, April 29. News has reached Teheran that 3000 Kurds pillaged the villages of Urnmiah, Salmas and Rhoy, massacring 2000 men women and children. Loudon April 29. Francis Hutchens, a New Zealand pianist, has been awarded a Thalborg scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. Jewels valued at £IOOO were stolen from the dressing table of the Hon. Mabel Yereker. It is believed the burglar was concealed in the residence at nigh time. Received April 80, 10.15 a.m. Sydney, April 30. British residents in the New Hebrides still complain of the apathy of the Imperial authorities. It is stated that all jjreliminary official appointments have been given to tiie French. London, April 30. A Dane, named Knudsen, gave a demonstration at the Hotel Cecil, of the action of a machine for transm.itting pictures by any wireless system. Ten thousand men are busy getting the Franco-British Exhibition in readiness for the opening. The statement of Wincott Cooper & Company has been tiled and shows liabilities of £403,043, whereof £70,071 are expected to rank for dividend. The assets aie £18,843. Received,April 30, 10.15 a.m, Melbourne, April 30. The Premiers’ Conference resolved in favour of the abolition of stamp duties on all Colonial Government securities, and that joint action was desirable to regulate Australian Stock Exchange dealings with Government securities. Government sustained three reverses last night over the Senate's tariff recommendations.