CABLES.

North Otago Times, 6 December 1910, Page 1

CABLES.

HOME' AND' FOREIGN.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,

Per Press Association,

' ■' :V- London, Dec, 4. The owners oi the Waratah have appealed" against - the award of! £3.00 damages to the' widow, off the purser and the Appeal Court has directefl the case, to |be reheard. New-York, Dec,.4. ; "; An engine blew up on the Penver' to Rio • Grande, railway lines- Three persons were' killed.' ' • '•••

Bandits held up the railroad station at Devil's' Slide, Utah, murdered the agent, robbed the'safe, and escaped,; '' , '. J -J"' . j'.| jj Berlin, Dec, 4. . Lasker has won six games and drawn three." New York, . Dec. 4,'. Troops havef tjien despatched frojja. Chihuahua to subdue the insurgents; who are taking refuge in the moun: tains. The '''peace envoys" are be-; lieved to be carrying an ultimatum instead of an olive-branch.

It has just "been -disclosed that, the, Government troops were defeatedon Tuesday last at-San Andres, "when , the revolutionists, holding the villuge, drove ofl the Government forces.

New York, Dec, 4, The United States has refused haven to Francisco Medero, the Mexican revolutionary leader. / ■ * London, Dec. 4. '. Mr Asqiuitli, in a message 'to the London electors, has asked them to give all England a ' lead. He adds; "The vital principle' ot representative Government is at stake, . Establish it to-day beyond all possibility of future assault."London, Dec. 4. Mr Lloyd-George is' suffering from a cold, and has lost his voice. :.. London, Dec. 4. , , The appearaancd of Mr Winston .Churchill at Lincoln was a signal for a pandetaonium among the crowd, Mr ChurcWll was twice refused a hearing, There were' several ugly rushes free fights before he departed. ' The Unionist candidate (Sir Robert Filmer) was struck in the face, and he returned the blow. The representation of the city remains unchanged,\

■London, Dec. 4. Lord Rosebery, addressing an enthusiastic audience of 4000 at Edinhurgh, said that parties seemed to have changed their platforms, as the Unionists we wise and moderate. While the Liberals were resorting\to single-chamber government, the Conservatives had- cornel round to his views on the hereditary question, and a man who never changed his opinions was -an ass. The Lords question might have been settled tout for the Government's maintaining! its. hereditary and irresponsible character to -suit itself, What jot or tittle of reform bad the House of Lords received from the Liberals. It was mere cant for them to denounce what the .Government alone was keeping in existence. Whatever was the result of this election it could not settle the constitutional questions,

London, Dec. 4< Mr Austen Chamberlain at Newcastle said , the Unionists proposed that in the matter of pure finance the Commons should have, besides the last, the only word.

Lord Loreburn, in a 1 letter, contends tljat the referendum implies that' H . direct, question shall be put to the\electors over :tlie heads of the representatives: It will be possible to secure assent to the general principle underlying any such question, while the electors may differ altogether on details. London, Dec, 4,,

Mr AffQMith, addressing a meeting of 000 at Newcastle,, said it was strange how the Unionists suddenly shifted, their ground and changed the cut of their uniform, The Liberals stood where tlvey did in January for freetrade and a free House of Commons, It was difficult to keep pace with their opponents' bewilderings eries of twists, gyrations, and somersaults. The Tories had discovered that it was unsafe t<> fight the election of tariff reform and the House of Lords, hence they were disguising the one and side-tracking the other. The referendum was meant to prevent the Liberals when in a majority, from carrying any great scheme of legislation without a fresh .reference to the people. [That was a parody and caricature of democracy. The Tariffites had already waited seven years, like. Jacob, and were likely to wait another seven. I A Voice: They will never get Rachel !

Mr Asjluith rejoined: Rachel will be no longer in the first flush of youth when they get her. Meanwhifie the notion that the people required special protection against their chosen representatives was the most fanatical even conceived..

London, Dec, 4. f The Liberal and Radical Associa- c tion at Bow have urged members to < support Mr Lansbury, i Lord Ampthill, at Finsbury, refer- < ring to the offer of the American < music-hall proprietors to, Mr Lloyd- i George, said there was a time when < BUch an insult to a Minister of the i Crown would have been regarded as a national insult. * Paris Dec. 4. M. Briand. 'has promised Govern- i ment measures dealing with the liijuor question a few days; Ottawa, Dec, 4. Five hundred prairie farmers, reprinting West Canada,, are coming here on the 16th instant to urge the lowering of tariffs on agricultural imported necessities. The Blue Book of the North-West Mounted Police alludes to the recent establishment of the Canadian Whaling Company, a nd hopes that Canada, will undersell the United States, which has hitherto been monopolising, the Arctic. London, Dec, 4. • Eight thousand American sailors were entertained at the Guildhall." Replying to, the Lord; Mayor's welcome, Commander Ames said he ■personally believed that if the British Empire were seriously, menaced by an external ensmy the British peo- - pie mig'bt count upon every man, every 'dollar, .and every drop of blood from their kindred across the sea. '* 1 Rome, Dec. 4. !Ari engineer named Cammarola, and Cahtelfancej a soldier, were killed whlle'(b!i.plaining\ at Oentavalli. The : machine was dashod to, the ground . owing to the collapse of the motor. . ■ London, Dec. 4. The Associated Board of the Roy a l College and Academy tf Music. Fes granted Ivy Wigmore, violinist, of. Perth, a second renewal of an exhibition for a year. London, Dec. 4. t o The Chamber of British Manufac-

turers, similar, to the Australian institutioo, ,ia 'being organised in London; ; ,'V .

r'L ■••> Berlin, Dec, 4., ■ The benzine fire : -wasv extinguished after burning lor five days. St. Petersburg, Dec. 4. a/Three' convicts killed six warders at Kharkoff, but the -three were shot when scaling the 1 wall in an effort to. escape; • : ; '

.' - . , Paris Dec, 4. r ,Thej Figaro gives - currency to a •report thanks long, been prevalent that diplomatic circles in Germany have offered several millions sterling, : and, military aid >or the fortification and defence of Holland. .

. Rangoon, Dec. 4.- • The leader- of the recent rising- has been captured' with hi 3 principal followers. All are petty cultivators, v- ■' . Vienna, Dec. 4. The Emperor- has bestowed " ft gold watch, with the' Imperial" initials in diambnds, on' Captain Matthews', of the steamer Lowthcr Grange, and binoculars, adorned jvith the . Emperor's signature; on ; Captain 'Andrews, of the tug' Dievan, while , the first officer and-'six seame.n : of ; the Lowther Grange have. received | monetary.awards. - The widow.of .the. engineer who -. was killed was'-'also, awarded. 10,000 kronen," and Admiral Slftde and . .the; * Governor., of Aden* were specially thanked. .'

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. - By Eliiiilrio J'clegrepli—Cojpyrht. Per Treip AsjocihtionV - Received Dec, '6, at 8.50, a.m.'.- . 'Perth, Nov. 5. ■ H.M.S, Fantomei ] conducted a fruitless l , search for • the' uncharted rock whiclv the -steamer Pericles struck. . . .' . • Melbourne, Dec. 5. The steamer Papanui was granted a clearance for Nagasaki, on- .the passporrt of the, Nicaraguan ponsul who stated that hei had received satisfactory reports from two firms of engineers. Steam was got ur and there wore preparations nmdei to' sail with a Filipino crew at midnight, but the Marine Board notified the pilots that they were not to navigate the vessel, which is stii in port, '

Perth, Dec. 5. [The wreck of the-schooner 'Harriet Constance, which has been missing for three years, has, been found at Steward - island, on the north-west cdast, She left Fortescue lor Cossack early in 1907 in charge of Captain Anderson, and had not since been reported, Sydney, Dec. 5. Serious outbreaks of pleuro -pneumonia, have occurred among two big mob's of cattle at Albury. Perth, Dec. 5. A telegram from the manager- of the Great 1 Chaffinch mines states that gold values have yet to be found.- - This has bean followed iby almost a panic in the mining markets;, and values fell all round, The boats lost in the Broome hurricane total 101., -Jfineteeh ai ( es|bijl,

missinig. The bodies of two men found on the beach, near Perth have been identified. It is supposed tbatthefir deaths' were due to poisoning.--They-•had evidently been dead for months, A jealous Japanese fatally shot a French girl named Defaur find then to commit.' suicide. . Melbourne, Dec. 5,

•Members ■ of both Federal Houses wil.l bailof'to chose 18 to represent Parliament at the Coronation. ■ • Brisbane, Dec. 5.

In the (Assembly'the Great Western Railway Bill was read a second timß(