HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9478, 4 February 1907, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received February 4, at 4.32 p.m. London, February 2. Sir Alfred Jones has returned from Jamaica. He thought- it was not right for American troops to land at Kingston. He says Sir J. A. Swettenlram. worked splendidly. Mr Ralph Caine states tliat- Admiral Uavies told him he landed the troops without the usual exchange of courtesies as an act of humanity, and sent two officers to inform Sir J. A. Swettenliam. Sir J. A. Swettenham cables that the bodies of 6C6 victims of the earthquake have been, buried. The Washington correspondent of the Times states that President Koosevelt conveyed to Mr Metcalf Iris approval of Admiral Davies' action, and Mr Metcalf has written) to Admiral Davies a lettc* of commendation. The Kingston correspondent of the Tribune states that, as a result of the earthquake the disbanding of the West India Regiment i 6 suspended, and that the barracks, which were destroyed, will be rebuilt shortly. Received February 3, at 4.55 p.m. Ottawa, February 2.

Charles M'Gill Iras been sentenced to five rears' imprisonment for making false returns to the Dominion Government regarding the position of the Ontario Bank. " Berlin, February 2.

The second ballots in Germany liave begun. A Radical unseated a Socialist at Bremen. . .

Herr Delbruch, the Prussian Minister of Trade and Commerce, has informed the Diet that nobody is alive in the Reden pit. Received February 3, at 4.40 p.m. London, February 2.

Speaking at Waterford, Mr John Redmond saidi: "Nothing but an Irish Parliament, with an executive responsible thereto, will 1 satisfy us. If the Premier s promise is consistent with this, and leads to Home Rule, we will consider it. and if the Bill is calculated to retard it, we .shall reject it." Mr Redmond proceeded to warn Mr Rirrell, whom he regarded as a friend, not to ask advice from Dublin Castle. He also, in the course of his speech, invited: Mt O'Brien to cease his internal wrangling. Mr Haldane has announced that Sootland has been selected for the summer manoeuvres of the regular and auxiliary cavalrv. The Duke of At hoi has placed his land at the disposal of the Government for the manoeuvres. - The Independent Labor Party's Parliamentary levy has been increased to twopence. Received February 3, at 4.55 p.m. London, February 2. Mr Balfour, in a speech at Hull, said he wi'.s not aware of the need of issuing a monthly bulletin defining his fiscal views, which were unchanged. He was increasingly convinced that Britain greatly suffered through self-imposed trammels. Mr Balfour expressed a desire for closer commercial union .between the Motherland and the colonies, and said that the party in power were blameable for not saying a simile thing publicly to indicate that it sympathised with tiie means the self-go-verning colonics proposed for ensuring unification and solidification of the Empire. Fiscal reform was still the main constructive plank in the Unionist policy, but if the Unionists became a party of one ideal they would fail to carry that and other reforms. The second interim report of the Royal Commission, including that of the late Mr Foster, declares that .the result of elaborate experiments show "that liovine animals and man can reciprocally be infected with tuberculosis. Cows' milk containing bovine tuberculosis bacilli clearly cause tuberculosis in man. A very huge proportion of tuberculosis was contracted by ingestion, due to tuberculo bacilli of bovine origin. More stringent measures were required in the inspection and sale of milk. Received February 4, ut 0.47 a.m. Paris, Februaiy 5.

King Edward and Queen Alexandra have arrived in Paris, and are staying at the British Embassy. Despite their incognito, large crowds cheered them on. their arrival. The Princess Victoria accompanied them to Calais, and thence proceeded to Xorwav.