HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8091, 8 January 1903, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Peb Pkess Association. [Br Electric Teleokai'h.—Copyright.] Received January 7, at 4.18 p.m. London, January 6. The Marylebone Committee have approved of the proposal to widen the wickets." The counties, Australian, P-hiladelphian, Scottish, and Irish cricket authorities have been invited to express their views on the innovation before it is submitted to a general meeting of the Marylebone Club. The War Office is calling for tenders for fresh frozen meat for the troops in South Africa for the year from Ist April. Tenders are to be filled in locally, and lodged by February 3rd. The meat must be of British or Imperial production if possible. Mr Copeland, Agent-General for New tSouth WaleSj replying to Mr Jephson's remarks on the restriction of immigrants to the Commonwealth, justifies the Labor Act in defeating a flank movement intended to undermine Australian workers. He added: ■ "It is probable the six hatters will now join the Union and subscribe to the very rules you so virtuously condemn." Received January 7, at 10.14 p.m. London, January 7. Advices from Madrid state that divisions in the pretender of Morocco's forces arose and there was ill-feeling over "the distribution of the loot. Additional tribes have submitted to the Sultan, and the uneasiness is now subsiding. A new Persian periodical has' been started at Askabad, devoted to promoting closer relations with .Russia. The German Crown Prince shortly visits St. Petersburg, after which he visits the Sultan. " ' It is necessary to lodge the.meat tenders for South African troops at Capetown, Pietermaritzburg, and Pretoria. A lighted candle ignited the decorations of the Chapel Royal at St. James'. The officiating "clergyman- mounted the altar, grasped and extinguished the burning evergreens. Received January 7, at 11.39 p.m. London, January 7. The outcome- of the strike at Denaby main collieries, Yorkshire, is that four hundred colliers and their families have been evicted. The- presence of large bodies of armed police at the scene of the strike still . continues. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants have resolved not to appeal against the decision in the Taff Vale case, but .to support any other union wishing to appeal. Mr Bell, secretary of the Society, reported that the Society's damages and costs over the case amounted to £50,000. He deprecated tlie carelessness of ordinary members electing irresponsible orators upon the executive instead of men of grit, who "would rigidly administer the rules. Received January 8, at 0.50 a.m. London, January 7. - ' The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert proceeds to the Mediterranean in March and there embarks the King and Queen for a cruise. It is estimated that Lord Dunraven's conference proposals will involve the State in" an absolute grant of fifty millions in connection with Irish lands. The gross value of the late Colonel M'Calmont's estate is estimated at two milv lions. The Standard states that preparatory to the incorporation of Rhodesia, a scheme is being prepared to merge the Chartered Company's and the Beehuanaland police in the South African constabulary. . New York, January 7. President Roosevelt has raised a "storm in- the Southern ' States by appointing a negro collector at Port Charlestown. The Republican newspapers of New York are divided in their views on the matter.