HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8092, 9 January 1903, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

[By Electric Telwraph.—Copyright.] Pim Press Association. Received January 8, at 11.20 p.m. London, January 7. The Great Fingal Company announce that Bowe has misappropriated £28,000 in the shape of cheques, securities, forged certificates, and transfers on which he had borrowed £72,000. The payment of a dividend has been postponed. Moreing, while' not admitting any legal obligation, recoups the Company all the losses. He returns to England immediately. The Queen Victoria Memorial fund has reached £233,000 including £SOO from Basutoland. Capetown, January 7. The proposal to transfer the natives of Central Africa to Johannesburg is strongly resisted at Blantyre, on the ground that they are fewer than are required locally. Beceived January 8, at 11.35 p.m. London, January 7. The Irish Landlords' Convention, while reserving to" itself certain criticisms, approved of Lord Dunraven's conference's report as worthy of the Government's serious consideration in connection with other recommendations. Bulgaria is reported to be arming. ' The loyal tribes of Morocco sent four thousand horsemen to Fez. Brussels, January 7. Owing to the suppression of gambling many hotels and clubs at the Spa have been closed for the winter. -The municipalities ■? are devising other attractions. New York, January 7. A Norwegian barque was wrecked at Cape "Flattery, Oregon, and 18 were drowned. ," Vienna, January 8. There have been Leavy floods in Austria and many fatalities. Paris, January 7. It is reported that M. Pelletan, Minister of Marine, after experimenting with the eight hours' system at some of the Government dockyards, with the object of ascertaining the amount of work done, was so satisfied with the result that he has decided to apply the system generally, as far as dockyards ai-e concerned. Received January 8, at ti1.50 p.m. Paris, January 8. It is stated in official circles in Paris that in the event of Russia protesting against the claim that British warships should enter the Dardanelles, M. Delcasse will support France's ally, Russia, as the clauses of the dual alliance cover the contingency. France considers the .observing of treaties, such as that relating to the Dardanelles, as subservient to me interests of the allies, and that there is nothing to compel intervention to secure their observance. {Berlin, January 7. 'Sixteen hundred employees of the Vulcan shipbuilding dockyard at Stettin have telegraphed to the Kaiser a resolution dissociating themselves from the' telegram of homage from Krupp's Essen workmen, who, they declared, were forced to sign or were likely to suffer pecuniary loss. Received January 9, at 0.56 a.m. * Washington, January 7. Dr von Holleben, German Ambassador at Washington, who was lately suffering from influenza, has asked for prolonged leave.