HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 7916, 13 June 1902, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] ' Per Press Association. j| Received June 13, at 8.59 a.m. J London, June 12. \'t The miners on strike, in Pennsylvania urge t the companies to raise the prices of coal s to pay their demands. The Times' New <J York correspondent says it is a question j whether ithte owners oi- "the Unionists shall control the mines. a Received June 13, at 9. Ba.m. 1 London, June 12. Sir E. Satow has accepted the. principle of pro rata, reduction of all the foreign indemnity claims against China arising out of the recent disturbances. Received June 13, «/t 9.15 a.m. , London, June 12. 1 As a result of tho shipping combine, the lnamibeiTs of the House of Commons interested in shipping have formed a Vigilance Committee. Mr Sheehan, M.P. for Mid-Cork, was sentenced to five weeks' imprisonment at Tkur.tes on a charge, of inciting to iiitimidation. He Telfused .to give securities for his good behavior for a year. The French fishery at Grand Bank. Newfoundland, is a complete failure. A hundred vessels at St. Pierre are helpless, bait being unobtainable owing to Newfoundland's stringent laws. In consequence of a revolution, Venezuelan gunboats are bombarding the town of Laguayra. Thie German warships Gazelle and Falke axe proceeding, thither. Fifty-two deaths from plague have occurred at Hong-kong in a week. Received June 13, at 10.29 a.m. Rome, June 12. The notorious Italian bandit Musolino, who eluded pursuit for years till October last, when he was arrested on charges of murder, was found guilty on all the counts, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, with solitary confinement for eight years. He is alleged to be guilty of some twenty murders.