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North Otago Times, 5 December 1910, Page 1

CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN. By . Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Per Press Association. . London, Dec, 2, The Royal Society awarded Madame Curie the Albert Medal.. New York, Dec. 2. Euiil Dumas,, who acted as, the New York' Times war correspondent in Indi a and South Africa, has died at Washington. He was found overcome in the city streets in October and refused to reveal his identity, The deceased founded the Manitoba Agricultural College. .

I American women and children have 'been ordered out of. the lumber towns along, the Mexican Northwestern Railway, rebel attacks being feared. .

London, Dec. 2, The Times' Teheran correspondent states that the Regent is not likely to return, as threatening letters have increased his natural .but excessive caution,

Leipzig, Dec. 2. Brandon and Trench will be triad by the, Imperial Court on the IGth.

London, Dec. 2. The Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society estimates the license duties to the end of October, at £1,061,768, which is four times the amount on the old basis.

At a luncheon given at the Guildhull to-day,, Rear-Admirals £|hroeder and Murdoch and officers of.thdAmtH rican battleships, and • Messrs Balfour, and Whitelaw ReW, Lord Strathcona, and Admiral Noel were present. Eight hundred of the rank and file of the fleet will be entertained to-morrow.

London, Dec, 2, Cohen and Harris, music hall proprietors of New York, offer Mr Lloyd-George £IOOO weekly,- t 0 promote a trans-Atlantic campaign against the Lords, speaking twice daily 0 n the lines of. the Limehouse speech,

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Nimrod, which was offered for sale, was withdrawn at £G97 S s. ' • ) London, Dec, 2. The late Sir H. Tichbome's estate was proved at £114,631.

Mr J. Henry, oil expert, will visit New Zealand, the United States, and the Far East in the interests of the Colonial Oil Company.

Berlin, Dec, 2. In connection with the census, the police .searched 115 districts early this morning for vagrants, and found only 00 homeless persons in the whole city.

Paris, Dec. 2. All the rivers in Brest have, overflowed, The Morlaix, Guingamp, and L'Anin are flooded.

The Committee of • the Ohamljer which investigated the conduct of the prosecution of Roohette, who was sentenced to two years on; July 27 for swindling, unanimously finds that the Prefect of Police, at M. Giemenceau's instigation, procured a tOgus plaintiff, and blames M. 01& meneau for interfering without consulting the judicial authorities, London, Dec. 2. Opposition papers, taunt Government supporters with opposing the referendum Because it will destroy a system of groups a nd the coalescing! of factions, as witnessed in recent yeara,

In the elections' there are 36 Jewish candidates (20 Liberals and 16 Unionists). In two London constituencies the candidates are all Jewish. Owing to the absence of the Socialist candidate, and the impossibility of correcting his nomination paper, a three-cornered contest at West Salford will he avoided.

The Hon, Neil Primrose, speaking at Wilbech, said he was not a Home Ruler, and that it might be possible for the Irish to manage a few moni of their own affairs, 'but h<j would never give them full management,

Lord Morley, at-Damn, recalled the fact that Lord Rpsetay and himself were the only surviving, members of the 1886 Cabinet. He said that Lord ■ Rosebery never cried against the American dollars when be was a Minister. The Conservatives were watering down, not abandoning the hereditary principle, ' by fantastic, ill-considered-, illuminate J. talk about the referendum, which would destroy the Parliamentary system.

Sir B. Grey, at Portsmouth, said that Mr Balfour's 'declaration was 1 the counsel of a desperate man, and was much like jettisoning tariff reform. Home Rule for'lreland was unfit for, a referendum to the whole of the United Kingdom. If they were going! to submit the constitutional .'question to the country let it be a question of 'general' devolution,. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Eltclrio Ttlegraph-Copyiight. P« Prew Asiociation. . Sydney, Dec. 3. During the ,week .•ended, Thurcdiaiy many earth tremors were recorded at Sydney, and last Saturday the Melbourne seismograph recorded the severest tremor .that has ever affected the instrument,

In the slander action Captain Strachan versus Dr Irmer, German Consul, the jury gave a verdict' for the plaintiff, damages a farthing*,, Melbourne, Nov. 3.

The Departmental engineer assured the Postmaster-General that if the telephonic-flat, rate had been continued until the present the service would have hroken down,' and sa'id that the ; toll system was a great relief, - ' >

Nuggets of. 90 and 100 ounces were found,at North Woah Hawp mine. The Scottish Qommissionew are astonished at the large areas- ' of farms in Australia.