HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12503, 26 May 1906, Page 10

HOME AND FOREIGN.

T/nited Prese Association—By Electric Telp^raph—Copyr arlit. THE COBAR COPPER MINE. LONDON, May 24. A company to purchase tho great Cobar Copper Mine in New South Wales is being formed, with a capital of £750.000 in shares and the same ! amount in debentures, bearing 6 per 1 cent, interest. Tho company is issuing i'IiOO.OOO worth of shares, and £500.000 worth of debentures. The purchase price is £1,000,000. i MASSACRE IN MACEDONIA. A Gut-k band numbering two litindred murdered eleven Kutfo-Wallach-ia-n families, totalling sixty of aL! ages, in tho village of Gobeua, Macedonia. THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSOCIATION. The "Daily Mail's" New York correspontlen; reports that, yielding to exPresident G-rover Cleveland's advice, Mr T. Ryan, First As*i>t,ant Secretary of tho Interior, has decided to give policy hoidei-s in the Equitable Life Assuranco Association the right to elect the director of the Association. SWISS RAILWAY OFFICIAL'S THEFT. RIO DE JANEIRO. May 24. A Swiss railway official, named Wydler, has been arrested at Rio do Janeiro for stealing a hundred thousand fames worth of securities from a railway carriage in Switzerland. LYNCH LAW IN LOUISIANA. NEW YORK, May 24. I A negro, who was arrested at Louisiana for robbing a white boy of a duilar, was lynched and his body was riddled with buiUtH. GERMANY AND PERSIA. | (Reived May 20th. 12.34 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. Tho "Standard V Paris correspondent icporte that Persia is prepared to grant Germany a part or a coaling station on tho Persian Gulf in return for a loan of £1,200,000. THE LABOUR DEPUTATION TO THE COLONIES. (Received May 2oth, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 23. Mr Keir Hardie hue infoimed Mr Rainsiiy MacDunald, S*!cretary of tli<J Labour v-cininitteo, tiiat he will bo tinabi« to .accompany tbo deputation of Labour to Australiia in August, owing to tho probability of au autumn, isceeion and tho st-ato of his own health. THE FREE CHC KUH aND SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. Tliq Free Church of Scotland Aseonibly adopted tho conuniitco's report condemning King EJwa.rd, Mr Balfour, and Sir fleniy C mpl)till-Ban-nerman for def.ecra.ting the Sabbath.