CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9139, 7 May 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. London, May 6.

Mr Winston Churchill to-day attends a conference of the Board of Trade towards the settlement of the shipbuilding lock-out. Received May. 7, 1.3 a.m. Sydney, May 6. The fall'of a crane caused the collapse of a roof of a building being erected at Ultimo. A dozen men were buried and six injured. They were taken to the hospial. None of the injuries are serious. Cairo, May ,6.

Scott Moacriefi’s murderer, named Abdul Kadi, a self-proclaimed prophet has been captured.

Received May 7, 10.3 a.m. Adelaide, May 7. Obituary: O. B. Fisher, aged 90, father of the Australian turf. Berlin, May 6.

The Kaiser has ordered the prosecution of a German officer , suspected of complicity in the theft of the Emperor of China’s marriage lines. London, May 6. Mademoiselle Giraudin, niece of Goold, the Monte Carlo murderer, died at Monaco Hospital, of decline as the result of grief. The late Mr H. L. Bischoffesheim, j u'wotw rata London financier and philanthropist, besides much settled property left net personalty amounting to £1,573,000. Two hundred brokers, owing to dullness in business, have retired from the London Stock Exchange.

Lloyds’ report that it is impossible to salve the Star of Japan. The hull is already partially broken up.