HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8876, 1 September 1905, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[Br Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received August 31, at 9.44 p.m. Morocco, August 31. Herr Tattenbach lias supjiorted' M. Taillandier's demands. The Algerian is ill owing to the foul state of the prison, and he has been Teleased ostensibly as an act of clemency. M. Taillandier is pressing for the remainder of the demands. New York, August 31. The Chicago-Alton railway i'k equipping all their engines with ethergr.iphs. I'ekin, August 31. The Dowager-Empress of China is about to dec-Tee tho establishment of a Parliament in 1917. A commission is now proceeding to Kurope and America to study the Parliaments of foreign countries. Berlin, August 31. The largest liner atioat, the Kaiserin Augusto and Victoria, a sister ship to the America (building in England), has been launched at Stettin. The Kaiser and Kaiserin ■were present. London, August 31. The eclipse of tho sun was observed in a cleaT atmosphere at Tripoli. The shadow of tho bands was particularly fine, and the corona was evenly developed. There weTe no long streamers. Splendid observations were taken at Guelc6, Burgo, Sfas, and Malta. Three new sun spots were noticed at Washington, and four groups of sunspots of unusual size were seen at Cincinnati.