CABLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9161, 2 June 1908, Page 5

CABLES.

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Teheran, June 1. The Khurds are massacring and pillaging iu the Uramaih district of Persia.

Loudon, June 1

King Edward received at Buckingham Palace the German pastors, who are visiting Loudon in connection with church union. The German Ambassador introduced them. The Duchess of Norfolk has given birth to a son.

Besides the cruisers, eight twentyfive knot destroyers will escort King Edward’s yacht to Revel. Sydney, June 1.

Bear, convicted of the manslaughter of Richards aboard the Somerset on April 11th, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Island advices state that the schooner Laurel, owned in Fiji, grounded on a reef in the Gilbert Group, and became a total wreck. The crew escaped in a boat. As the result of fumigations in Melbourne and Sydney nearly a thousand rats were destroyed. Aboard the steamer Innamica were a considerable number of plagueinfested rats. Cairo, June 1. The death sentences on tw T elve of the Abdelkedar tribe, who were accomplices in the murder of Mr Scott Moucrieff, have been commuted to imprisonment for life with confiscation of property. Salonika, June 1. A Greek band massacred fifteen out of forty Bulgarians working in the fields outside Salonika. Received June 2, 8.5 a.m. London, June 1. The Peary Polar Olublis projecting an expedition to the Antarctic, but Peary will not lead it. Obituary: Sir John Evans, eminent scientist and antiquarian, aged 85. Advices from Teheran state that 700 well armed Afghans have occupied Regan, in Persia. Received June 2, 8.5 a.m. Paris, June 1. Three men and a woman, recognised as former artists’ models, robbed a Paris Villa at midnight, after strang. ling Adolphe Steinheil, a well-known portrait painter, also his mother-in-law, and gagging his wife. Melbourne, June 2. Arrived—-Union Company’s new steamer Tofua, from Liverpool. She had a very rough passage from the Cape and some damage was done to the fittings.