CABLES.

North Otago Times, 26 January 1906, Page 2

CABLES.

HOME AND POJiEIGN.

(By Electric Telegraph,-Copyrighti)

(Per Press. Association.)

Received Jan, 25, at 11 p.ui. '.' Calcutta, Jan. 25. Tho Prince audiPricciiss ot Wales were enthusiastically welcomed in Madras. Forty thousand were fed iu the city in connection with the rejoicing.

... Vancouver, Jan. 25. . The Valencia is a total loss. Out of a crew cf 60 and 91 passengers, at present only fifteen are kiiown to 'be saved. The Vessel stru'ok Oapp Beale, where the - rocks rise precipitately 400 feet. The lifeboats wcto swamped. A woman dropped - twi children into the sea while trying to-hand them to te 'husband'in a boat. She jumped ovcrboaiyl in despair and was'drowned. The husband was drowned in trying to save W.

Received Jan, 25, at 11.28 p.m. i London, Jan.2s. The army stables at Willesndert were burnt and 78 horses killed. 200 were 11. berated from their sta.ls and stampeded, killing a pedestrian.

Madrid, Jan'. 25. /The Algcciras conference admits tin right ot France awl Spain to supervisi contraband arms on their respective froli tiers, and acknowledges the Silltan': risht to watoli the coast, '

. St. Petersburg, Jan. 25; TJie Livonian rebels are being overawed by the military with vigor, and arc surrcnderin- their leaders, who arc shot, Received January 26, at 1.4 aim. .- Washington, January. 1 25. Senator Lodge, in the Senate, in discussing Monroeism, said the United States ought not to. allow a foreign power even temporary occupation dn tho American continent. It could not permit foreign powers to occupy ports in the Carribean Sea, which .guarded the approaches to the .Panama Canal. If San Domingo was left in its present bad condition the United States might be. compelled to take it in . order to prevent others doing so. Received Jan. 26, at.1.4 a.m.

London, Jan.' 25. Coopman Young, ol Smithfield, on a charge of adulterating colonial/butter, was fined £3O cn one count and 20s. on another. The' prosecution did not proceed 1 witli, His case 'in respect to Cox, but tlie Queensland butter agents arc considering the advisability of instituting a special prosecution respecting 'it. Mr Fletcher Moulton, K.C., success Mr Justice Mathew, resigned. Capetown', Jan. 25.

The British' in Johannesburg are" disinaycd at the Home Government's; attitude on the constitution and Chinese labor. • ? .