CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9395, 16 March 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Sydney, March 15. Jonathan Henderson, managing director of the Pacific Fisheries, Limited, has been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to defraud. He was released on bail. London, March 15. New Zealand has secured a large area at the Imperial Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bash. The. output of coal for 1908 was 261,569,379 tons, a decrease "of 6,306,470 tons, and 47,195 more miners were employed. Teheran, March 15. A hundied Cossacks are proceeding to Teheran Legation. London, March 15. A British naval-airship with a 40horse power motor engine is in course of construction at Portsmouth. Sydney, March 16. Opium seizures in the Commonwealth in the past three years are valued at £11,794. Brisbane, March 16. A tragedy has occured at Childers. A man named Spencer was engaged to a girl name Swindall, and on her declining his attentions shot her and himelf. Spencer is dead and Swindall is in a critical state. Perth, March 16. A lineman named Cox, working on overhead wires, fell across a live cable carrying 2000 volts and was roasted to death. Adelaide, March 16. In inter-State tennis Victoria defeated South Australia by 144 to 104 games.