CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7933, 15 December 1909, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

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'SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON. I LONDON, December H. . King Edward' formally K3oii|fe,rred knighthopd. oh $ir Ernefet ShacUletoh and handed medals to his companions. AN AMALGAMATION. .. The Amalgamated Society iof Itailwaymen and the Railway .Workers Union have decided, to amalgamate. GREAT FIR^ IN,CHILI. '* VALDiViA (Chili), December 14. A great portion of Vaklivin has l>o»n burned. The damage amounts to half a million sterling. ; [Valdivia is the chief town, of the Chilian province of the same* name and the principal: port of a German colony. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1837.] ;;- '■:-}. '■' THE CASE OF VISCOUNTESS CHURCHILL. ;:*

Viscountess Churchill's brother states that the. Viscountess went abroad for certain Teasons for tho sake of her children. Her decision had nothing to do with a medium or/any .such influence. There is no anxiety on the part of her family regarding her whereabouts. [The original message read as follows : The Daily Express reports a great Society sensation. Visco ; unt Churchill's wife has not Veen seen since she left St. Pancras station, London, a fortnight''ago. . '/'.:, i 2 „ It ft understood that she Consulted who; assured ljF».9f *d" 'yice from the .spirit''world, that !t was her duty to. leave her husband and take the children away.] '