CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9450, 21 May 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, May 20. A satisfactory demonstration of the automatic stamping machine in use in New Zealand was given at the Chamber of Commerce. The Federal Government intend to adopt the machine. There is a stiff south-westerly gale blowing, with heavy seas. Coastal shipping is sheltering. Farther useful rain has fallen and is spreading inland. Mr Ashton has resigned as honorary Minister owing to the pressure of private business. Francis Webster, of Welcome Nugget fame, died at the Ballarat Benevolent Asylum, aged 77. He returned to Ballarat three years ago poor and in ill-health, and was compelled to seek shelter in the asylum. Calcutta, Maj 20. Two Brahmin students have been sentenced to six months imprisonment for the importation of two pistols to Nasik from Gwalior. Received May 31, 10.85 a.m. Adelaide, May 21. A sailor on a coastal vessel has died of septicaemio plague. Freemantle, May 31. “ Arrived: Oroya. Passengers—Astill, Rose, Fuller and wife, Metcalf, Rev. Fitzgerald and Miss Femley. London, May 20. The Peninsular Oriental Company have declared a dividend on deferred capital of 7 per cent. Mrs Lucy Grice, widow of an ironmaster of Newport, Monmouth, has bequeathed £IOO,OOO to charities. Berlin, May 20. The Reichstag has ratified the Patents Treaty withJJAmerica. Herr Von Hollweg expressed the hope that reciprocal protection of patents would form the basis of the international patents laws of the future. New York, May 20. Obituary: Henry H. Rogers, a Standard Oil magnate.