LATEST CABLES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 5

LATEST CABLES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 20, 8.40 a.m.)

INDIA. CALCUTTA, January 19. Ten Jats have been charged with bringing suspects into the regimental lines without leave. The loyalty of the regiment as a Avhole is undoubted. SMUGGLING. BERLIN, January 19. Dahlsen, an engineer, has been fined £l2O at Munich, besides £3550 compensation to the State, for smuggling Italian-made automobiles across the Bavarian frontier. FRENCH TRADE. PARIS, January 19. French imports increased last year by sixteen millions sterling, whereof twelve millions were raw material. The exports increased by twenty millions. The returns indicate unexampled prosperity. MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS. NEW YORK, January 19. The Herald's Tokio correspondent reports that Japan's policy firmly rejects Knox's Manchurian railway neutralisation proposals. . (Received January 20, 8.45 a.m.) LATE OCDEN MILLS. LONDON, January It. Mr Ogden Mills' fortune of ten millions sterling was divided between his son and Mrs Whitelaw Reid. One hundred thousand pounds was left to charity. . [Mr Ogden Mills was a resident of San Francisco.] BRITISH CABLES. LONDON, January 19. The Daily Mail says it is understood the Canadian scheme seeks to reduce cable rates to Britain by nearly half, and give a direct neAVS service to Canada, avoiding the bias which now attaches to passing through American channels. GERMAN TRADE. BERLIN, January 19. German imports in 1909 were 25 millions sterling, and exports 15 millions, over 1908. FOR CHARITY. NEW YORK, January 19. Henry Elliott, the American naturalist, who was killed in a snowslide, left £400,000 for a home for friendless children. (Received January 20, 10.50 a.m.) AGRICULTURAL COLLECE. LONDON, January 19. At the instance of the Governor of Jamaica, a movement is in progress to establish a properly-equipped and efficiently-staffed tropical Agricultural College in the islands. BARRY. LONDON, January 19. The Sportsman newspaper is opening a subscription list to enable Barry the sculler to' relinquish his present employment and begin training immeiately.