GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 17 June 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

=__4 LIQUOR AND A CAMP. BI JDLXOTSIO TELEGRAPH COPTEIQHI. MB UNITES! PR.KSS ASSOCIATION. OTTAWA, June 15. The troopers of the 6th Field Battery resigned in a body owing to the Minister for Militia (Colonel Hughes) retiring Major Leonard. The men assert that Major Leonard was wholly unaware that any liquor was hidden in the camp. BRITISH PUBLIC TRUSTEE. LONDON. June 16. The 'Daily Chronicle' (G.) urges the passing oif legislation to regularise the position of the Public Trustee, which is becoming one of the largest Departments in Great Britain.

ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. LONDON, June 16. Mr Staokhouse proposes to start on his Antarctic expedition in December. FOUND TO BE INSANE. Received June 17, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, June 16. Samuel Maddiek, the electrical fitter at Portsmouth Dockyard, who wtiis recently arrested on a charge of espionage, has been found to be insane, and the change of espionage has been withdrawn. At a (previous hearing a detective ■said that when he arrested accused the latter had admitted that he purposed shortly going to Ostend to meet the agent of a foreign Power, but denied •being possessed of secret information. FLAG DAY IN AMERICA. WASHINGTON,! June 16. President Wilson, in an] address in connection with Flag Day, said he wondered at those who used the- American flag boastfully. The flag was meant for future national power to be justly, used. It stood for self-<possession and asserting the right of one nation to serve other nations, not for aggression or self-aggrandisement.. It was a pitiful thing when they had to make an apology for anything Americans did under shelter of the flag.

BAGDAD AND MESOPOTAMIA. BERLIN, June 16. Subject to Turkey's approval on some material points, Sir E. Grey (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Prince Lichnowsky (German Ambassador • in London) have initialled an agreement on the Bagdad railway and Mesopotamia questions, embodying a complete understanding.

TRAGEDY IN PARIS. , LONDON, June 15. . Mr Ernest Sackville-West, whose unsuccessful claim, to the title of Lord Sackville and the estates entailed to. the title created such a sensation in 1910, has comjmitted suicide on' heading of* his wife's death from cancer. A DISTRACTED HUSBAND. PAEIS, June 16. The Sackville-Wests recently conducted a lodging-house at Monte Carlo. They came to Paris in order that the wiitfe might receive treatment for can--cer. Mr Sackville-West, distracted at seeing his wife's body, walked into the .next room and shot himself with a revolver. Money troubles were partially responsible for the tragedy, as the deceased was possed of only Bs. \ THE PRINCE OF. WALES. LONDON, June' 15. A fellow-student writes: —The experiment of the Prince of Wales studying at Oxford as an ordinary undergraduate is entirely successful. He has won everybody's respect and admiration'. RINGS FOR THE QUEEN. "LONDON, June 15. Mrs Shaw Shrubsole, of Kingston-on-Thames, has bequeathed six diamond and i>pal rings to Queen Mary, if she will graciously accept them.