GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 28 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

A SUCCESSFUL OPERA. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received January 28, 8.10 a.m. BERLIN, Jan. 27. Dr. Richard Strauss' comic opera "Rosen Kavaiier" lias been produced at Dresden. It met with an enthusiastic reception, there being 18 calls for the author and the curtain being raised after the second act. PAUPERS AND PENSIONS. Received January 28, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 27. The Government intimates that boards of guardians will not be required to lie pay the amount of out-relief saved through the granting of old age pensions. GERMANY'S CONSULAR SERVICE. Received January 28, 10.35 a.m. BERLIN, Jan. 27. At a conference of officials and commercial men at the Foreign Office it was decided that in future candidates for the Consular service should possess i practical knowledge of commerce, inIdustry and shipping. ACQUITTED. Received January 2S, 10.35 a.m. BRUSSELS, Jan. 27. The Appeal Court at Bom a, in the Congo, acquitted Major Arnold. In March, 1909, a tribunal at Mobeka, in the Belgian Congo (late Conge Free State), sentenced Lieutenant Arnold to twelve years' penal servitude ii: connection with murders, incendiarisn and robbery in the Mongalla Territory, ZULU REBELS RELEASED. Received January 28, 10.35 a.m: CAPETOWN, Jan. 27. Tilonko and other Zulu chiefs whe were imprisoned on the island of St. Helena fyj' piyticipat'ion in the 1906 rebellion have been released. ARGENTINE'S CATTLE TRADE. Received January 28, 10.35 a.m. BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 27. The Argentine ports have been reopened for the importation of British cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and foddei after being closed consequent on the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Yorkshire.