HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 9729, 4 January 1908, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[B- Electric Telkgbaph—Copybioht.] (P«r Press Association.) Received January 3, at 8.42 p.m. London, January 3. Captain Yergoeben, a combatant <m the Boer side in the late war, wearing a mask, at ltudnight shot .Major von Schoenebect dead on the major's staircase at Allenstcin barracks, after the major's weapon missed fiie. Reuter says tile evidence points to the major's wife as the in. £tigator, as she had concealed the mask beforehand. '■ The captain confesses that he committed the crime in a frenzy of love. Ottawa, January 3. A branch mint at Ottawa has been opened. Earl Grey, the Governor%ieneral, struck the first coin. London, January 3. Mr Redmond, in a lengthy statement on his failure to summon the- party and of the National Directory to endorse the action of the conference, said it was dne to Mr O'Brien's demand to immediately summon the directory, which he .-ought would be inopportune, and not making for unity but strife. It was due also to Mr o''Brien's proposal to transfer the arrangements to convene from the hands of the directory to the committee, three of whom were Mr O'Brien's nominees.

Received January 3, at 10.25 p.m:" Kingston, January 3. A severe earthquake shock lasting 15sec has been experienced here. Vancouver, January 3. While three firemen were walking in the Japanese quarter, one stumbled, breaking a shop window. A number of Japanese surrounding them, wounded all three whites, one badly. Four Japanese were arrested. This' is interpreted' in some quarters as indicating the Japanese are lesentful over the September rioting, and eager to take revenge. New York, January 3. Caldwell's extradition is being pressed for.