HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 9730, 6 January 1908, Page 3

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

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(Feb Pbess Association.) Received Januarv 6th, at 8.14 a.m. London, January 5. Mr Riclwrd Bell, on behalf of the Railway Men's Societv, complains at the London and North Western Company taking a .ballot of its employees as to whether or not thev are trilling for the company to bear the whdfe ecst of conciliation, boards and arbitration proceedings under the new echeme, instead of the companies and employees sharing the cost, Mr Bell declares" that this is a violation of the spirit of the agreement, and is a transparent attempt to pack the conciliation boards with •non-union men. The Admiraltv has replaced on the active list the third-class cruiser Philomen ami the sloop Algerine, which were declared ineffective in 1904. Ottawa, January D. Obituary-E. Hanlan, of Toronto, the champion sculler. It has been decided to accord him a civic funeral. The body lies in state at tlie City Hall. [Edward Hanlan was considered by many rowing experts to be the most brilliant sculler who ever competed for the championship His first success came in la'o when he beat Elliott for the honours. In 1880 he defeated Trickett, in 1881 Laycock (both Australians), and in 1882 Boyd and Trickett a"ain. Hanlan in 1883 rowed to maintain his claim against Kennedy and Wallace Ross, and in 1884 secured his last victory a<minst Lavcock, being defeated by Beach in'the latter end of the same year. He never retrieved his lost laurels, though he showed great determination in. the matter Beach, defeated him in 1885 and in 1887, and in 1888 Peter Kemp, to whom the championship honors had been handed bv Beach, on two occasions beat the redoubtable Canadian. That is the last occasion on which he rowed for the blue riband of the aquatic world.] St. Petersburg, January o. There are 140,000 people confined in the Russian prisons, this being 34,000 beyond the number it is possible to accommodate sanitarily. Received January 6, at 8.18 a.m. Durban, January 5. Military operations have been suspended in Zululand. Capetown, January o. Mr Abe Bailev suegests the formation of an "imperial Cricket Board of Control, each colony to have one representative, and England one in addition to the chairman. London, January 5. Mark Hambourg will make a three months' tour of Australia and Xew Zealand, opening in Sydney in July. As a result of a conference between the Drtice claimant and his solicitors, lasting for two and a-half hours it was decided to leave the question of the continuance of Herbert Druee's prosecution to Mr Atherlev Jones' discretion. "It transpires that prior to shooting himself, Major Coates Phillips asked his wife to re-marry him, but she refused. At the inquest- on Phillips a verdict of insanity was returned. Phillips' wife's mother has succumbed to her injuries. [Major Henry Coates Phillips entered the residence of his wife, from whom he had been divorced, and fired at her. She iled after the first shot, and escaped. The major then shot at her mother and Mr Smith (solicitor) injuring them seriously, afterwards committing suicide.] The Observer reports that negotiations are in progress to sell the Times to the proprietors of several magazines and newspapers.