HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 8491, 26 May 1904, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Ki.ecxkic Telegraph.—Coi'Ykioht.] (Per Press Association.) Received May 25, at 9.46 p.m. ; London, May 25. The newspapers 'widely comment on the spreading observance of Empire Day. It was noteworthy for the Canadian Society's dinner in London, and the laying of the corner stone of the University in Ottawa, when Cardinal Gibbons to the world-wide veneration of Queen Victoria's memory, and fne Pope cabled sympathy with the new faculty of children's gatherings held at Gibraltar, Malta-, also St. James' Hall and lipping Forest. The latter organised a fresh air fund for the poor of the Bast End children. Beuter's Agency states that a sensation was .caused at Innspruck by the Pope decorating two members of the Catholic Union who, through declining to participate in duels, forfeited t'heir military commissions. The Pope thus placed himself in direct opposition to the Austrian army authorities. The Swiss and Italian negotiations for a treaty of commerce, are suspended, it is rewith a view of protesting and calling the Powers' attention to the AngloFrench treaty. The Kabyles tribesmen resolved to kidnap a diplomatist- at Tangier. Islew York, May 25. Colombia., resenting America's action at Panama, declined to receive America's new Minister, adding that any Minister was objectionable at the present moment. Received May 26, at 0.59 a.m. London, May 25. Professor Castellini, of Colombo, announces that he has discovered the bacillus of dysentery. Received May 26, at 1.2 a.m London, May 25. 'The Hon. W. Hall-Jones was the recipient of an address at a dinner at Folkstone. Sir E. Saesoon and Mr Reeves were present. Mr Hall-Jones, responding, cited New Zealand legislation as an example of trusting the people, and the education of the_ people to believe in their own responsibilities.