HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8292, 22 September 1903, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

[By Electiuc Telegraph.—Corritia nil Per Press Association. (Received September 22, at 8.30 a.m. London, September 21, The formation of the fifth and sixth arL corps at York and Edinburgh has born «u,, pended, none of the present army corps bcinj at full strength. ' Many Ministers are going backward mo forward to the King at 'Balmoral. The Spectator directs attention to tli s l nt . Mr Tom Hughes' proposal that every p',,,, tion of the Empire should bo free to propog* whatever tariff was needful for revenue with an agreed discount, say 10 per cent, on fl || goods manufactured and produced within the Empire.

Lord Balfour of Burleigh and 'Mr KUioit aro Cobdenite scceders.

Berlin, September 22. Owing to the indignation expressed in (j 1( , city, the case of Sergeant ißraidonbaeli, „[ the Prussian infantry, who was charged win, brutal ill-treatment of subordinate!;, has ln Vn revised, and the sentence of three and a l w ][ years raised to five years.

(Paris, Septomher 21. The Polynesian Jias been refloated at Mar. settles. ,'Slio received somo damage to th u hull.

Received September 22, at 8.34 a.m . New York, September 22 Clerques' Consolidated Lake Superior Cnm. pany, with a capital of a million dollars' has suspended. Three thousand five hundred people liavo been thrown idle. The susjioh. sion is due to the inability of the company to boiTow a million and a half dterling in New York, also to the Steel Trust's determination to crush the companies. Washington, September 21. Owint; to tho introduction of a Bill i n Santo Domingo establishing the neutrality of the Dominican waters and making certain ports free, the authorities at Washing on warned tlio- Dominican Government that America will not allow a foreign coaling station, at Santo Domingo or the exclusive u,* o of waters by any Jinropean Power.