CABLES.

North Otago Times, 1 December 1910, Page 1

CABLES.

HOME AND* FOREIGN.

By Electric. Telegraph.—Copyright

Received Nov, 30, at 9.45 a.m,

r Pans, Nov. 30 - The Gaulois says English . statesmen heretofore prided thwtißolves on I their courtesy to their adversaries, but .Mr Lloyd-George 'goes in search, of personalities and infuriates his opponents with gibes, sarcasm, and insolent persiflage in debates, 'Mr Lloyd-George might, -by his . merits, elevate the commonalty, but he coarsely and brutally, sinks to their j level. • ."

Vienna, Nov. 29. The Reichspost denominates, Mr Lloyd-George as a hot-blooded. English Mirabeau; while the Allegemeiue Zeitung declaws that it is repallant to hear ah English • Minister of the Crown openly praise revolution, . London, Nov/29. The Bow Liberal Association has resolved cot to support. Mr Lansbnry. , The crowd broke up a suffragette meeting at Stafford' iby means of snowballs. Sir I<!. Grey, speaking at Dudley, said the Lords' proposed reform would probably result in a House consisting of 120 Liberalsi and 290 Conservatives. Moreover the Crown's prerogative to create Pears would be gone for ever.

At the Belfast demonstration 20,000 people; .were unable to gain admission.

Lord Londondeiry declared thafc top Government would be. responsible for the blood shed in the event of the granting of Home Rule.' The- Ulster Courcil has resolved to establish a fund to enrol regiments and purchase arms. Ten thousand sterling has been promised. The Council of the Northumberland Miners' Association, 'by 45 votes to 30, agreed ita paj Mr Thos. Burt's Parliamentary salary of £350, which was sacrificed! by bis, not signing, the Laborite pledge.

New .York, Nov, 29, The United Irish League of America has opened subscription funds to assist the Irish Home l Rulers* London, Jjov. 29..

Lord CurZDn, speaking at| Hull, challenged corrpurisc/n between his anij Mr Lloyd-George's lifework. He would sooner cut : off his hand than poison the minds of Ms countrymen and preach civil war. The spectacle of the Literal Party protesting against a referendum was enough to make the angels weep, ' , Lord Burghclere, in, a letter, protests against a Bill enacting the supremacy of one House by a bare majority without appeal. Mr Lloyd-George's statement that a referendum would cost two millions isi a much-traversed one.- An estimate on the same proportion as Switzerland ia that the cost would not exceed £ll'-,000. Eo other estimate exceed £16,000. No other estimate, ex-

Thf). Times contends that a second chamber having no authority except what it derives from the majority in

the House of Commons would.be an absolute farce, Any conceivable second chamber having an independent constitutional basis of its own w ; ould be better than a chamber liable to be altered and re-altered at the uncontrolled caprice of the majority of the chamber it is ,meant to check.. Th'i Manchester Guardian contends that the House of Lords' resolutions will give the Conservatives a permanent majority in the reformed House.

New York, Nov, 29,

Captain Cofiell and his two sons aboard the coasting schocner Lone Star, were rescued by the incoming liner Montemple, bound from St. John's (New Brunswick). They had b«en without food or drink for 28 hours. The vessel .bad experienced a terrific gale, and had 'becomci waterlogged and dismasted. •

The British cargo boat Clan Maclean arrived at New York with half the crew prisoners. A number ,of Spanish sailors mutinied when in sight of the American coast, but the officers drove' themlofl with' revolvers. The mutineers cannot land without the Immigration Department's approval. The Department is loath to give this, and the ship cannob, load if the mutineers remain.

London, N0V.129,

Gray has scored 81,000 in public matches iu England, whereof 77, per cent was accrued in three or four figure breaks. He mad© 222 breaks ever 100, whereof 26 were over 500.

Airlviid—Buteshire amd Totrioana, from Auckland.

Sailed—Orari, for Auckland, William Albany will row Barry for the EnglM championship in May, Yokohama, Nov, 29.

The Shiroese Antarctic expedition aboard the Kainnam-maru started yesterday. Experts consider that owing to inadequate'preparations it is failure. London, Nov. 29. Thf ' report, of the Australasian •Mortgage Agency Co, ehowa a profit of £22,889\ Sales of properties and calls realised £17,022.

Miss Fanny.Dango, the actress, bus been married to Mr Mackay, a squatter, of Melbourne,i Tlki Mamari, chartered by the New South Wales Government, will sai'l on Thursday witto 475 assisted emigrants ; for Sydney and 75 for Melbourne,-

As _ a result of the New Zealand proposal,, the Liverpool Children's Employment Comj mittee selected 25 youths as apprenI tices to farmers under Government supervision.

St. Petersburg, .n'ov. 29. Ten vessels foundered uj 'i at Astrakhan 1 with their crtjws. V landing-stage was destroyed and Persian dockers were^'drowned. /"Genoa, Nov, ,2J. During,the year ended October, M climber! were killed and 87 'injured in-'Slvitzerland. ' \ \ ' Paris, Nov. \ Mademoiselle Marvingt has secured an, aeroplane pilot's certificates.- In a -52-rrvmutes' flight she covered 30 miles.

Vienna, Nov. 29. Vigyage, a ; ladies hairdresser, committed suicide in his cell at BudaPesth after arrest for blackmailing aristocratic ladies 'by means of accusations with their chauffeurs. Amd other blackmail' The sums raised in this manner raniged from 3000\to 50(\i kroner. The affair has created a sensation in Hungary.