CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9134, 1 May 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. Rome, April 30. Mount Etna is in active eruption, and presents a splendid spectacle. Lisbon, April 30. King Manuel, in a pathetic speech at the opening of the Cortes,-referred to his father’s terrible martyrdom. London, April 30. Earl Dudley’s brother, the Hou. John Ward, is engaged to Jean, the daughter of Mr Whitelaw Reid, the United States Ambassador to England.

It lias been definitely decided that the Prince of Wales shall open the Frauoo-British Exhibition on the 14th instant. Calcutta, April 30. Serious native riots in Annum, headed by anti-French representatives of the educated class, have taken place. Sydney, April 30. Advices from Noumea state that the Norwegian barque Biarue was wrecked ou Surprise Island. The crew of thirteen are being brought to Noumea. Received May 1, 8.40 a.m. Moscow, April 30. One-fifth of Moscow has been inundated for several days. There are 50,000 sufferers and the damage done amounts to three million sterling. Loudon, April 30. Britain is negotiating for the acquisition not only of Kilautan and Trenggauu in Lower Siam, but also for Kedah and portions of Rahman and Pataue. Kedah contains a strip of valuable tin laud. Received May 1, 8.10 a.m. New York, April 80.

Charles Coster, a wealthy New York stockbroker, lias committed suicide after losing £200,000 of his firm’s money in desperate efforts to retrieve losses in the October panic.