HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1009, 10 March 1909, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received March 10, at 8.5 a.m. Berlin, March 9. The Hamburg-America line, for the first time in 15 years, failed to declare an annual dividend. In enumerating the adverse causes which occasioned a shrinkage of 50 per cent, in the year's results, the report emphasises the disastrous influence on shipping from the construction of such record-breaking vessels as the Lusitania and Mauretania. The Civil Court of Berlin granted Baroness Eckhardstein a divorce. Constantinople, March 9. Some troops at Yildiz Palace were responsible for the outbreak. Dissatisfied over the elimination of their officers, the men identified themselves with the old regime again and proved mutinous, but the trouble was promptly quelled. [A company of soldiers at the Tashkisha barracks, Constantinople, who were ordered to the provinces, refused to go. Another battalion fired on them, killing three of the mutineers and wounding 15, 80 others being arrested.] Paris, March 9.

The French Chamber, by 367 votes to 120 rotes, decided to placard M. Caillauxs speech explaining that the Income Tax Bill abolishes undemocratic privileges, reduces the conslilution of the small landowners from £4,200,000 to £1,800,000, and also diminishes the shopkeepers' contribu-' tion by two millions and throws the extra burden upon the well-to-do people.

Received March 10, at 8.42 a.m. London, March 9. Dr M. A. Stein, leader of the Indian Government mission in Central Asia, recently returned to London, after crossing ten thousand miles in the wildest and bleakest regions of the earth's surface. His journey occupied- three years. Dr Stein gave details before the Royal Geographical Society of his discoveries in Chinese Turkestan. He showed thousands of ancient- documents, some of them bearing the Greek seals, wooden records of the Chinese trading a:'l military occupation before Christ to 800 A.D. Dr Stein explained that the Great Wall of China was once continued a long distance westward. The story was one of"the most interesting told in many years. Calcutta, March 9.

The police arrested a Bengali in connection with the theft of 150 pounds of dynamite and a quantity of fuses from the Hazarabargh magazine. Seven others were arrested for complicity in an anarchist conspiracy. The Councils Bill is causing .excitement in India. Meetings held in many towns illustrate the rivalry between the Moslems and- Hindus. The Lahore Mahommedans desire no Executive Council, and in the PunjatTib, in the event of a change, they demand a- separate Moslem representative. Received March 10, at 9 a.m. London, March 9. The Standard says the whole purpose of the revision of the United States tariff is an attempt to regain foreign trade lost through the heavy duties of European countries. Rome, March 9. Mr W. E. Cornwall, Registrar of Melbourne University, died suddenly at Rome, where he had- gone to marry an American lady. Walter Kirby. the New Zealand tenor, sang by command of Queen Margherita at Rome. [Mr Walter Kirby was born in Auckland and toured New Zealand with a coneert party about ten years ago previous to going to the Old Country to study.] Berlin, March 9. The Reichstas has voted more money for new airship experiments, : which are being conducted with great energy. Pekin, March 9. ' !' Dr Morrison, who has visited the Shang-hai-Hangchau-Ningpo railway, states that Britain's'million and a-half is being squandered' owing to the Chinese disregarding! the contract requiring British supervision and the use of British material. Every important stipulation of the financial contract has been violated. - Received March 10, at 10 a.m. London, March 9. Sailed—Arawa, for Lyttelton; Kaipara, for-Auckland ; Dee, for Nelson.