HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 8563, 18 August 1904, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[Br Electiuo 'lblkorai-h. Uoptmoht.) (Pbb Prkss Association.) Received August 18, at 7.40 a.m. Bombay, August 17. The Dalai Lama, before departing from Lhassa, appointed a regent, the ncgotia. tions have token a favorable turn. 'J'lio Thibetans aro anxious to Ih> rid of the British, and accordingly I lie Ainbiui i» offering no reasonable objections to the, torms of the treaty. Receivod August 18, at 7.52 a.m. London, August 17. It is officially certified that, there is no plaguo in the Transvaal. Tlie Legislative Council of Pretoria urged the Motherland to appoint a. commission of influential men to visit I lie Transvaal and report on tho whole question of AsiMic and trading licenses. Received August 28, at 10.56 a.m. London, August 17. The negotiations between England and Venezuela have, commenced in connection with blackmailing foreign companies having seized tho Asphalt-Lake Gnanoco railway, worth two millions sterling. Tho New York and Bermudoz Asphalt Company, the seizure of whoso property tho ■Court at 'Caracas recently ordered, have invoked British and American protection in connection with the seizures.