HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 8227, 14 September 1901, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

[Br Elkoteio TBLHoaA>s. Copyright. ) Pub Phkss Associatiok Received September 14, at 9.20 a.m. London, September 13. The Times Copenhagen correspondent is authorised to state that the Duke of Orleans apologised and begged the late Queen Victoria's pardon for encouraging the French, artist who caricatured her. The Queen's answer was conceived in a most generous spirit, forgiving the Duke of Orleans in her name and the name of her family. In the cricket match, England v. Yorkshire, England scored 526. Jessop made 233, compiled in 155 minutes, and Fry 105, his sixth consecutive century. Lord Hawke asks, why should English cricketers go to Australia to make money for the Melbourne Club, which offers Rhodes and Hirst £3OO, while Australians here netted £7OO. "Why did not Australians wait till the Marylebone Club was able to send a representative team?" He instances Jessop's and Fry's scores to show that Rhodes and Hirst are tired. The West Australian loan of a million and a half at 3 per cent was placed on the. market at a fixed price of 91. Berlin houses are issuing 4 per cent bonds .guaranteed by Russia, on behalf of three Russian 'railways.

■Received! September 14, at 9.20 a.m. London, September 13. The Rev. W. J. Williams, of New Zealand, delivered <u, cheering address to the Methodist 'Council on the spiritual vitality of the Methodist Churches of Australia. Other speakers were optimistic as regards other.fields, but pointed out that the increasing demands of social life were serious dangers. Sir John Gorst, addressing the British Association, declared that it would prove of inestimable advantage if Great Britain would adopt a scientific conception of the national education similar to that already in force in the colonies and in Europe and America.

[ Received September 14, at 9.37 a.m. London, September 13. Messrs Pearks, Gunston, and Tee, grocers, were fined £ls ss, including costs, at Wands-worth, for adding an undue percentage of moisture in churning colonial butter with pure milk. The label explaining the blend was held to be misleading to those unacquainted with'the constituents of butter. ■ •*

The South Wales collieries are arranging a pooling system similar to that in- operation in the Westphaliaa mines.