CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9334, 2 January 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

•* ft,.T* Association* —3y Elec- - ’ , ’ rapb. —Copy rig hr. London, January i. JL ’ ‘. yf Indian honours has ;, j iu connection with the V-,J .Job of the fiftieth any :£ the Crown’s assumption 'srv eminent of India. , •' ’ Paris, January 1, St . Corsican Attorney ii-J'vsnce against the Governfired revolver ohofcs J<‘-‘ the window of an office M., C'i ■uiecwac was working. arrested.. • C 1 .• •• JJ., CDived January S, 9.35 a.,.m. ' A. s ßiaidßi ■ Janaary 3. ' ployed;; in;.,.the Proi iotary ACu*e Smelting Works at ■y.’-lp. ■*•s Piiv; have conic out in Sympathy witn cheir comrades. The barrier works are carefully picketed. Capetown, January 1. A Chicago firm is closing its'Oapetown branch as South Africa is now supplying herself with meat. Constantinople, January 1. The Sultan sent 130 carriages to bring members of Parliament to a banquet at the Palace. He con* versed with deputies with {he great intimacy.

Calcutta, January 1. The editor of the inflammatory newspaper Swarraj has been arrested at Allahabad, with seven other Hindoos tor sedition.

London, Jannary 1, Increased pay is to be granted to the man and officers of the Indian Army. Heblen Bridge, Yorkshire, weavers’ strike has collapsed. It lasted 42 weeks and cost the weavers amalgamation £23,000, During 1908 New South Wales Government granted 3090 assisted

/■passages. 4 'Twenty million sterling, mostly under wills, was entrusted to the control of public trustees during (the first year of the existence ofthe office in Britain.