CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9146, 15 May 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association. —Copyright. Sydney, May 14. , The North Sydney plague patient is dead.

Received May 15, 81.0 a.m. Loudon, May 14

Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria spent several hours at the Franco-British Exhibition.

Earl Chichester has joined the Board of the Union Bank of Australia.

Received May 15. 8.50 a.m. London, May 14

Dorothy Wiles, of the Model School, Sydney, won Lord Meath’s Challenge Cup aud money prize for the Secondary Schools essay. Owing to confidence in the new High Commissioner, the protecting Powers have decided upon the gradual withdrawal of international troops from Crete.

|M. Yves Guyot in a letter to the Times urges that the Franco-British Exibition should open on Sundays, otherwise thousands of Frenchmen will be unable to visit it. English Sabbatarians are opposing the opening. Received May 15, 10.10 a.m. Sydney, May 15. The A.M.P. Society is completing arrangements for opening its London office, which is expected to be ready for transaction of business on Jtily Ist. ® The official report shows that the industrial establishments in the State at the end of last year wore 526 more than in previous year. The hands employed number 87,194, an increase of 9872: wages paid £6,679,000, an increase of £1,088,000. The average wages are £76 13s, compared with £7l 17s. During the past seven years the, employment of female labour has doubled and male has increased 33 per cent. Useful rain over a great part has caused a fall in wheat.