CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9147, 16 May 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association. —Copyright, London, May 15.

The English Bar propose to give a banquet to Mr Asquith, who is the first lawyer, since Spencer Percival, to be the head of the Government. New York, May 15. The House of Representatives has passed the Currency Bill, which was introduced by Mr E. B. Yreeland. The voting was 184 to 145. A tornado devastated the oil region in western Louisiana, killing 100 and injuring 700. Sydney, May 15. The woman Jane Blaike, arrested on a charge of stealing the property of Alexander Brown (who is supposed to have died from the effects of poison), has been arrested on a charge of causing his death, and remanded for a week. Received May 16, 9.48 a.m. Melbourne, May 16. Continued heavy weather is interfering with the search for the Orion. There is still hope that she may be sheltering.

The motor car of A. Clark, a wellknown mining engineer, collided with a fence, and Clark wns killed, and his chaffeur, Hall, badly injured. Sydney, May 16. Arrived : Mokoia, at midnight. The Seaham Coal Company have secured the contract for coaling the American fleet at Sydney. Calcutta, May 16.

The editor of the Oujerah Weekly, the Indian Home Rule paper, has been arrested at Bombay on a charge of sedition.