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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10041, 8 January 1909, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[Br Electiuo TuLkonAi-H.—■CojfriiiOHT.}

,(Pkb Press Association.) Received January 8, at 8 a.m. Homo, January ,7.. Tho British and Russian worships, being near, were the first to provide food for the survivors at Mcesina and. the first to oztrioato tho wounded. The Italian authorities gladly recognise that but for their effort many moro woulld otllorwbo have perished. The British sailors wero a week without a mouthful of hot food, everything warm beimjk .given... to tl'w wounded. The inplj, wore kept at the resoup.worfc till m 4 Ut'tikht at their own request. The Russians afto worked; magnificently.

London, January 7, The Times' Messina correspondent aayj that many villagers from a. distance obtained supplies, pretending .that they were refugees. Such oftcndiers have now Ixm.ii weeded out and punished, ' A mirrettaliln state of looting prevailed,' and fifty u[ 'those ghouls wore shot.

Tho American Committee have charter, od tho North German Lloyd vtonmcr Bayeni, and sho is starting for Chita Voochia. and Roggio to-day. Sluo carnua besides stores £40,000, three doctors, and twaitty nurses, with the American naval attache and a committee of .distribution. Mr Griscom, American Ambassador, ftill accompany tho steamer as far as Mesnina and will welcome Admiral Sporry to-mor-row.

London, January 7. Tho Standard says ft poworful AngloGerman entente commit/too hus boon funned, represcntiiug all Germany, with l)r Von Uollcben as prcsidont. Received January U, at 0\26 a.m. London, January 7. The Mayor of Windsor autertaiiwd imt Wallabies, who visited Windsor Ctwtlo. The team will loavo Liverpool on tho 23i\l for Amorica, where sovorul matclies will be played. Mr Lcmieux, Canadian PostmasterGeneral, in tho course of an interview, stated that a further conference with tho Imperial Government would he nocoKsary before any reduction of tho cabin rates could be arranged) for. The American athletes have., been reinstated, as the charges ug&inut them were not sustained.

[.Several member* of tho Athletic Uni-m were suspended for alleged profo-.-sionalism, including three winners at ike Olympic Uames.] St. l'ctcrsburg, January 8. Many high ofhVors, including tho (hid assistant of tho St. Petersburg polico, h»v« been arrested for bribery ana corruption. There have been an enormous number of thefts on tho Russian railways, ©xceod. iiiif £200,000 at Vilna alono. London, January 0. A letter in The Timos, signed by mory liifluehtial South Africans, protests amiifwt the continuance of alili-Ilidinn legislation in Hie Tronhvaal. In 1908 nine hundred British Indians, many of tllom highly educated, were imprisoned for passive resistance.