CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9135, 2 May 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association—Copyright. London, May 1

The "Bank has handed Lemoiue’s formula to the Bow Street magistrate, who will transmit it to a Paris magistrate. Received May 3, 8.23 a. in.

Howard Smith’s 3000 ton steamer, Burwah for “Sydney-Rockhamptou trade has been launched at Sunderland . A third death lias resulted from the Britannia accident. Teheran, May 1. The Persian Government is hurriedly collecting 1000 troops to proceed against the Kurds, who captured and horribly maltreated 2000 women and children. Received May 3, 9.3 a.m. Calcutta, May 1. A bomb thrown at a carriage at Muzaffaporo, Bengal, killed Miss Kennedy, and the coachman, and Mrs Kennedy is in a precarious condition. Adelaide, May 3. An attempt was made to wreck a train near Port Augusta, hut the engine displaced the heavy wooden obstruction placed on the line, and no damage was done. Received May 3, 9.13 a.m. Sydney, May 3. A tender of £130,000 for the first section of the North Coast railway from West Maitland to Grafton, has been accepted. The estimated cost of the whole line is three millions. During the past four months 899 assisted immigrants arrived in Now South Wales.