HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8290, 19 September 1903, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

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. Per Pjiess Association. Received September 19, at 7.43 a.m. London, (September 18. In a bye-election for St. Andrews owim, to the sitting member, Mr M. T. Ajistrutl,,. ('Unionist) being appointed to the Suez (\ nal Commission, Captain lEllice (Liberal) elected by a majority of 36, defeating Maim. Anstruther Thompson (Conservative).' New York, September ig. Sir Thomas Lipton is easier and proizicw mg satisfactorily. ■Received (September 19, at 11.11 a.m. St. Petersburg, September fg M. de Witte is visting the European caiii. fals, trying to raise, a Russian loan of f w<<n(v millions sterling. ' The Russian Press insist upon (.lie news sity of Masampho as a naval station t,i> pre" vent the creation of a second Dardanelles b<.. tween Vladivostock and Dalny. London, September 18 Several newspaper approve of the Hiigges. tion that >Dr Cockbiirn shouia be appoint,] temporary High Commissioner of Australn Received September 19, at 11.20 a.m. Ottawa, September IG. Lord iStrathcona and Mr Mulock, C«.nidian Postmaster-General, have conferred i» reference to the Telegraph land line rates between Canada and Australia, which high as to militate against the Pacific cable 'Mr Mulock wag unable to promise relief, as tlie Canadian Governmeint exercise only; nominal control of the rates.

English detectives arrested at Toronto a man believed to be A. S. It-owe, wanted in connection with the Great Finga.ll Consolidated Mining Company's frauds. London, Soptembcr 18. Mr Pereival Spencer steered an aimlim from Crystal Palace to St. Paul's before Hie wind, but was unable to return, and landed at Barnet, in Yorkshire.