HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 7913, 10 June 1902, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

Per Press Association. Received June 10. at 0.21 a.m. London, June 8. The London University will confer the Doc-, torship of Laws on visiting colonial Pre. iniers. . Cardinal Vaughan, preaching at Hoiloway yesterdav, and Dr Parker, at the City Temple, referred gratefully and touchingly to the noble services the colonies had rendered in the war. A Spanish scientist nameid JTigueras, Professor of Physics at Las Palmas, claims to have invented a simple generator capable of collecting atmospheric electricity and storing it for use on railways. and in factories, -and predicts a tremendous economical revolution. He will visit Europe with the object of patenting the discovery. Mr (Barton has been elected an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn. Borne, June a.

Signor Prinetti, Italian Minister for Foreign Afiairs. has resigned. He fought a duel, wounding Deputy Eranchetti. owing to an altercation respecting the Italian colony of Erythrea. He will resume office.

Received: June 10, at 1.19 a.m. New York,-June 9.

There was a terrible eruption at Mont Pelee on the 7th. Darkness prevailed from ten in the morning till two in the afternoon. The Plains of Mornerouge were covered with hot mud. Some lives were lost. The damage is moderate. Eive of tihe largest shipbuilding firms in America have amalgamated, with a capital of twenty-five million dollars, to compete for foreign orders.