HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 10011, 30 November 1908, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

(BY KI.KCTHIC TEl.KOKAl'H.—Covvhiout,] (Per Piiksn Association.) Received November 30, at 8 a.m. London, X ovpmber 29. The 'Court of Appeal unanimously' J,,, cided that a trades union is not empower, ed to levy money to support members () [ the House of Commons, and refused to suspend the injuction pending appoul to the decision of the House ol Lords. At a Meeting of aquatic men lit Putney, the editor of The Sportsman presented George Towns with a vellum testimonial and £124. -1

The Manchester November Handicap rnsuited: Old China 1, Sinionson 2, i;» r . Gil 3. Received November 30, at 8.37 «.m. London, November 29.\. lir -Chit, Archbishop of Melbourne, wiei received in audience bv the Pope, who .expressed gratitude for the £2OOO worth of "Peter's' Pence," from the clergy (iM faithful of Melbourne, lie also tnankcii' the Bislion of Ballarat for a donation of. £IOOO and the Archbishop of I lobar! for liis generous offering. ' [Peter's Pence was a' tribute originally collected in several of the Western king.' doms of Europe and offered to the l'opo, The first idea of an annual tribute sce)iiji to have originated in England before the N'orinau Conquest, and the money was collected from everv householder about (Jt-. Peter's Day, for tlm supjwrl of an Kug. lisli college and hospice iii Rome. '['ho tribute was finally abolished by Elian, both.]. ... . _ ■ , Maher wins the jockey clmmpionsliip of Britain with 139 wins for the yonr. Wow. ton is second with 130 and Higgs has 124.:

The Tongariro's passengers wore landed on Saturday morning and ;havo -readied London.

St. Petersburg, November 29." A band of robbers attacked .tlw Siberian mail train in the Trans-Baikitl. territory; The robbers secured 250,000 roubles, *bul three of them were killed' during thefight with the escort. ; New York, November 29i An iron cage, was blown 300 feet, from the pithead at Marianna. A thin dbllil of smoke is now issuing from both shafts. The heat compelled the first rescue party to rot-urn. The State inspector had completed a. two days' examination of tho mine three minutes before the explosion, and had found everything in perfect order.

Received November 30, at 9a.m. : London, .November 30. Justice Eve refused to appoint n receiver in tho Sackville Estates. lie expressed no opinion respecting Ernest West's claim to the estates. Paris, November 29. Calling to remembranco the fact that l'resident Felix Faure was alone with .Madame Steinhal when he died, the Paris newspapers speculate as to whether or not she poisoned him, concealing cyanide of potassium in n cigar. The magistrate ordered the exhumation of tho bodies of M. Steinhal and Madame Japy to learn whether they had been drugged before they were murdered. New York, November 29. Mr E. If. Hitchcock has accepted the Postmastership in President. Taft's Cabinet. ' Lon • on, November 29. Owing to the success of its Canadian section, the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris is forming a section of Australian membersl . • St. Petersburg, November 29. Ten thousand Russian volunteers, including many officers, liavo enlisted for service under the Servian Government, ill the event of war. .