CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9392, 12 March 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association. —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright * London, March 10. The Chronicle says it is understood that King Edward will take some occasion to receive the delegates at the Imperial Press Conference. As the outcome of the Coal Oonollation Board’s meeting, the threatened'trouble in South Wales has for the present been averted. Sydney, March 11. The collier Wallsend went ashore in a rough sea in a bad position on Bellambi Reef. The erew are safe. Melbourne. March 11. A deputation of unemployed informed the Methodist Conference that there were 100,000 unemployed at Melbourne at the present time. Received March 12, 9,57 a.m. London, March 11. Herman Cohen, a well-known money lender in the North of ‘England, was found murdered in his office at Sunderland. There is no cine to the murderer. Ramsay MacDonald, on behalf of the Labour Party, / has issued a p-o----posal for an all British Labour and Socialist Conference, concurrently with the Colonial Conference, which is expected to take place in 1910. Ottawa, March 11. Sir Frederick Borden, Canadian Minister for Defence, states that the militia numbers 47,500 and that the Dominion defence scheme in 1910 will cost £1,222,600, The first line of defence consists of 100,000 men, and the second line of 200,000 men. Sydney, March|l2. Wearne, owner of the mill from which the plague oases were taken, has died from the disease.