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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 8489, 24 May 1904, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[Bt Elhctbio Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received May 24, at 8.49 a.m. New York,. May 23. A mysterious epidemic called spotted or cerebro spinal meningitis, caused 456 deaths in New York recently. Children were the chief sufferers. Permanent blindness, deafness, and paralysis was often the result.

Received May 24, at 8.15 a.m. London, May 23. Owing to the agreement of the Cunard line with the Hungarian Government to take emigrants to America at special rates, Herr Balfw, general manager of the HamburgAmerican line, 'announces that his and the other Continental lines have fixed the thirdclass passenger rates from London and Liverpool to New York at £2. New York, May 23.

The stallion Ormonde died in California. The animal was chloroformed to relieve fain.

Received May 24, at 9 a.m. ■Capetown, May 23. The Zulus and the Swazis exhibit discontent and unrest, the result of American negro agitators preaching Ethiopianism, meaning Africa for the African natives. New York, May 23.

In the Presidential campaign, President Roosevelt had a. great majority at the Republic Convention of Democrats. Of the plurality candidates Judge Parker is the most popular. Mr William Hearst, the owner of nine newspapers in New York and elsewhere, backed by Mr J. Bryan, is working regardless of expense. He has already spent three hundred thousand pounds. He demands t-lie enforcement of laws against criminal trusts, abolitio.ni of lowering duties, and is against the creating of monopolies. Labor supports his candidature.

[A message received per steamer at Auckland says:—lt is becoming evident that Judge Parker, of New York, is to be the standard-bearer of the Democratic party during the approaching Presidential campaign. William Randolph Hearst, owner and proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner and of yellow journals in a number of American cities, gave the American public quite a scare by "booming" himself tremendously as a candidate. Of course the danger of Hearst's candidature is not yet over, as the National Convention meets in St. Louis early in July, and not until that is over can it be definitely known who will be named by the Democrats. However, the democracy of the great- State of New York has instructed its 78 delegates to St. Louis to vote for Judge Parker's nomination, and only one State (Kansas) has instructed delegates to vote for Hearst, while many localities are to send delegates not definitely instructed to support any candidate. In speeches at the Democratic Convention in New York there were bitter denunciations of the administration of the Republican party in both State and national affairs, and the Convention declared for a Government of laws, not of men * no usurpation; no executive encroachments on legislative or judicial departments; for opposition to trusts and other combinations that oppress people and stifle healthy industrial competition; for a check on extravagance in public expenditure, so that the burden of the people's taxes may be lightened; for reasonable revision of the tariff, .the maintenance of State rights and home rule, honesty in the public service, and the impartial maintenance of the rights of labor and capital.] The International Chess Tournament was concluded at Cambridge (United States). Out.of a possiblefifteen, Mr F. F. Marshall, who won' the tournament, secured thirteen, points. Herr Janowski, and Dr Lasker secured eleven each. Mr .Marshall did not suffer a. single defeat. { 'Paris, May 23.

Colonel Gordon, air Englishman, was arrested at Ze Palais Belleisle on a charge of espionage. . . ■