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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7265, 12 August 1907, Page 2

Cable News. The Latest.

HOME AND FOREIGN. United Press Association —Per Electru Telegraph—Copyright. CONSOLS. (Received August 12, 5.20 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. Consols, 81£. "Owing to the serious decline in railway and other securities, next week's settlement is causing much anxiety on the Stock Exchange. "ministers expelled from their pulpits. The Rev. R. J, Campbell has appealed for help on behalf of several young ministers who have been expelled fron? (heir pulpits for accepting the new theology. The Workman and Clark Company o\ Belfast ship-builders, has temporarily discharged 200 men owing to the com' pany's inability to obtain materials. THE ALL-RED ROUTE. , , OTTAWA, August 11. Both Sir W. Laurier and Lore! Strathcona are confident of the ulti mate success of the All-Red route. PEKIN TO PARIS MOTOR RACE. PARIS, August 11. Prince Borghese, the Italian cdmpeti' tor in the Pekin to Paris motor race, has arrived here, and was accorded p triumphal procession, with a band ancl a procession of motor car's. OPIUM DENS CLOSED. PEKIN, August 11. All the opium dons in Canton have been closed, causing general rejoicing

STRIKERS AND STRIKEBREAKERS. ANTWERP, August 11. Fire hundred strikers stoned 700 English strike-breakers, causing the police to draw their swords in order to disperse the assailants. BRITISH RIFLE TEAM. (Received August 12, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, August .11. The British rifle team has sailed for Australia., FORESTERS AND OLD AGE PENSIONS. The High Court of the Ancient Or- j der of Foresters almost unanimously \ instructed the executive to submit, ii; ! connection with the 1908 scales, contributions for compulsory old age pension? for the Order's future entrants, on r basis of 5s per ,reelr, instead of sioV 1 pay after reaching the age of seventy. '„ REFUSAL TO RECOGNISE. - i The Great Western Railway has re [fused to recognise the. Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees. THE TURKS AND PERSIA. (Received August 12, 9.3 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. Britain and Russia-have urged" the Porte to withdraw Turkish troops fron: Persian territory. A GREAT CENTRE FOR THE STEEI. INDUSTRY. NEW YORK, August 11. The United States Steel Corporation, believing in Gary, Indiana, as a grea' centre for the steel industry ,_ has voted nine millions sterling for the construction of works there, making a to tal investment of twenty-four millions. MASSACRE IN THE CELEBES. PARIS, August 11. The massacre of two officers, nine Europeans and twenty-two native soldiers, is reported from the Tomoi district ir, the Celebes. It is said that the natives took them by surprise.