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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9162, 4 June 1908, Page 5

CABLES.

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Cairo, June 2. Egyptian Nationalist organs have published mendacious articles affirming that the military, after putting in irons seventy persons in the Blue Nile province, massacred them. Pretoria, June 3, Premier Botha has condoled with General Buller’a family. Mr J. H. Smuts, interviewed with regard to the late General Bnller, said he was one of the hardest of fighters, and criticisms of his campaign against the Boers are not justified. Adelaide, June 3. At the inter-university sports Nigel Barker won the 100 yards championship in 10 3-ssecs., the quarter mile in 55>£sec, ami dead heated with Waddy in the half-mile in 2min. 7 2-ssecs. Berlin, June 3. A waiter named Schiwara, has been sentenced to 12 years’penal servitude at Liepzig for procuring papers and drawings concerning the safety of the State, and revealing them to the French Government. London, June 3. The Gainsborough picture, “Girl with a dog,” which was stolen in 1906 from Mrs Weatherley’s residence at Kensington, was found under the doorstep of an empty house at Hackney. ■ London, June 3. A tornado on Monday night, in a few minutes destroyed sixty famous chestnut trees at the.Teddingtou end of Bushy Park. . Lancashire beat Notts by nine wickets.