LATEST CABLES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 115, 19 May 1910, Page 5

LATEST CABLES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 19, 10 a.m.) STEAMBOAT TRAGEDY. ST. PETERSBURG, May 18. A steamboat containing 94 work:men struck a rock at Alexandrovok, near Ekaterinoslav, on the Dnieper, .and 47 were drowned. RELEASED. CAPETOWN, May 18. Mankulmana, Dinizulu's Induna, Jhas been released. (Received May 19, 10.5 a.m.) A VALUABLE OFFER. MELBOURNE, This Day. The offer of 1200 guineas,- on the jpart of an Indian buyer, was refused ,for the racer Conge Deslire. GERMAN IMMIGRANTS. PERTH, This Day. A party of one hundred German for Queensland by the Osterlty celebrated May Day by hoist ing i- red flag and singing the "Marseillaise." SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. ADELAIDE, This Day. The final result of the Flinders elections gives a Labor majority, and settles the fate of the Peake Administration. , LONDON, May 18. A second man named Nusiani has !been convicted of blackmailing Signor •Caruso, the celebrated tenor, and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment .and deportation. NEW YORK, May 18. A deputation waited on the Mayor .of New York and demanded veto legislation whereby residents of New York, arrested more than twice withiin a year for intoxication, would be 'liable to committal to an inebriates' farm for a year. The Bill has been ' nicknamed the ' 'Two Drunks a Year Bill." MELBOURNE, May 18. The Federal Government subscribes £IOO towards a memorial to be erected at Halifax to mark the centenary of Constitutional Government in Canada.