CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9178, 23 June 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph -Copyright. London, June 21. Sir J. G-oroll Barnes , in ' .giving a decision in .the action in the Admiralty Court, decided that tha Viator alone'was to blame for the • • liison with the St. Paul [The St, Paul, a large American, liner, rammend H.M.S. Gladiator off the Isle Wight in a fog. The Gladiator W&s beached in a sinking conaitiOand heeled over on to one side, i Telegraphing on Saturday the bomo African Cricket Assocatiou statea that it had not received a definite invitation to visit Australia. In® opinion in Johannesburg is that should the “triangular scheme be abandoned the whole question will require reconsideration. _ , Canadian crops of all kinds show healfchv progress, and the yield pro--raises to be large and the harvest early. There has been a continuous rainfall throughout the West. Tiserc are rumours that ths IzLitilamb, London and North Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire railways have agreed to a working arrangement.