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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9464, 5 June 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Pekin, Jane 4, China has now withdrawn her proposal for arbitration in regard to the Paknmen railway. V. Melbodrne, Jane 4. The Licensing Board have squashed 11 .more hotel licenses in the city. Hobart, Jane 4. Major-General Harry Barron has been appoined Governor of Tasmania. Perth, Jane 4. A Malay aboard the steamer, Zoroaster at Banbury has the plague. Received June 5, 8.45 a.m. St. Petersburg, Junei 4. The Russian railway loan was covered two fold. \ Pretoria, Jane 4. The central South African railway, constituting 400 miles line, in the Transvaal and GO in Orangia, will cost £1,600,000. London, Jane 4. The Daily Mail publishes a special cablegram from Mr Deakin, also the first leading article dealing therewith, which is headed SelfReliant Australia. The Manchester Cup resulted:— Cargill 1, Rushoutter 2. Lisohana 3. i; - Received June 5, 8,55. a.m. A fire in a drapers warehouse at Hammersmith did £40,000 worth of damage. One hundred women assistants escaped half dressed, and 80 males crossed 'from their bedrooms In che burning wing to a window of the opposite .block by means of a single plank. Two London swell mobsmen have been sentenced to 18 months and 13 months respectively for obtaining £734 from Inglish, a West Australian, who was persuaded to back various horses for the Derby after its result was known. Copenhagen, June 4. In connection with the recent sale of Holbein’s picture of Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan, by the Duke of Norfolk for £66,000, the purchaser was about to sell the picture to an American for £75,000 when subscriptions saved it for the Danish nation. One anonymous donor gave £40,000 and the Treasury ••added £IO,OOO. Berlin, June 4. The International Miners’ Conference in Berlin congratulates British miners on the" Eigth Hours Act and insisted that the hoars should he reckoned from bank to hank. The Conference demanded similar legislation in other countries, and the restriction of the working day to 6 hours where there was a temperature of 83 degrees. Paris, June 4, The Egyptian" Appeal Court disallowed the claim of the Khedive Ismael’s heirs against Government for £1,000,000 arising out of the sale of the Daira and Sanieh lands, which Ismael surrendered in satisfaction for his debts. j