LATEST CABLES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1910, Page 5

LATEST CABLES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright: (Received January 19, 8.55 a.m.) SHORTAGE OF HORSES. LONDON, January 18. The Daily Mail reports that the "War Office census of horses reveals an alarming deficiency, owing to the acifcivity of foreign buyers and the decline in the demand for brewers, cab, and omnibus proprietors. Farmers are only breeding carthorses or show liaekneys. The census enumerates 156,000 horses as being the maximum required ,but there is allowance for a reserve. OBITUARY. LONDON, January 18. The mother of Lord Nothcote. (Received January 19, 9.50 a.m.) SENTENCED FOR FRAUD. NEW YORK, January 18. After fighting every court for two years, John Walsh, 'president of the Chicago National Bank; failed to secure the repeal of his conviction, and now serves five years for fraud. THE CZARINA, ST. PETERSBURG, January 18. There are disquieting reports as to the Czarina's health, and St. Petersburg papers are required to publish only official news. [Letters lately received from Livadia, the marine residence of the Czar, in the Crimea, state that the Czarina's neurasthenia sometimes produces such absence of mind that she does not recognise her friends and servants; she is haunted, too, by an indescribable fear. These acute attacks do not last very long. The Empress generally recovers in a few hours after a torrent of tears; but she does not remember anything of what happened during the crisis. Professor Botkin, a specialist in nervous diseases, was summoned to Livadia recently. Her Majesty's fits of depression are of such a mature that hopes of her complete recovery have been abandoned. She is a sister of Queen Alexandra.] CABLE RATES. OTTAWA, January 18. A Bill is announced to control the Ocean Cable Companies' rates and the facilities of all such companies for landing in Canada will be subjected to the jurisdiction of the Board of Railway Commissioners. SHIPPING. Arrived, lonic, from Wellington. BRISBANE, January 18. The sugar export for the past season was 101,297 tons, a decrease of 16,652 tons as compared with the previous season. SYDNEY, January 18. The Underwriters' Association is advised that the steamer Ayrshire has been floated ,and has arrived in the Liver pool dock for repairs. MELBOURNE, January 18. The Federal Parliament has been further prorogued till February 19, when it expires by effluxion of time. The writs for the Federal elections will be issued on February 28. Nominations will be made on March 9, and the polling take place on April 13.