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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10453, 12 May 1910, Page 4

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[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION. Received May 12, at 1.30 a.m. Ottawa, May 11. A regulation has been made which, the manager of the Canadian emigration organisation in London interprets as excluding from Canada, any immigrants assisted by charitable or public bodies unless proceeding to farm work, with his approval.

ANGLO-A MER-ICAN AGREEMENT. London, May 11. The Times' "Washington correspondent savs the Anglo-American agreement for arbitration in pecuniary claims will shortly be signed, thus settling the last important question between the two countries. It provides for a. commission of three members, and amply safeguards the interests of the self-governing domiminions. ANOTHER GERMAN DREADNOUGHT. Berlin, May 11. Prince Eitel launches the Ersatz Fritlijof, the eighth Dreadnought, at Danzig, on the 18th June. She belongs to the 1909 financial programme, and was laid down before the end of the previous year. The battleship Posen, the previous Dreadnought, was completed and went to sea in fifteen months after she was launched.

REMARKABLE RESPONSE. Ottawa, May 11. The Young Men's Christian Association at Toronto, in nine days raised £140,000 for new buildings.

CHAOS IN CRETE. Constantinople, May 1-1. The Porte has protested, and threatens strong action in reference to the Cretan Assembly's oaths. : T-

ESCAPADES OF A SUBMARINE. London, May 11. "While manoeuvring at Plymouth submarine A 8 dived 200 feet and touched the bottom . It rose only, after ah. hour's considerable •' labor, the crew's pent-up anxiety finding vent an hearty cheers. , Submarine A 8 is the same which sunk at Cowes Bay in 1905, when 15 were drowned. Afterwards she was repaired. THE CHINESE CUSTOMSI. Received May 12, at 10.40 a.m. Pekin, May 11. Mr F. A. Glen, Commissioner at. Hankow, is acting as Inspector-General of Maritime Customs. ';•' TENNIS.-'-''• Received May' 12', at 10.40 a.m. Berlin, May 11. Decugis beat Wilding in the final for the Wiesbaden Championship, 7—5, 6—4. v, ve MORE BALLONATICS. New York, May 11. C. Yates and Forbes, Vice-President of the Aero Club of ; America, left Quincy (Illinois) and attempted; to make a long distance balloon record. They were discovered wounded and unconscious at Glasgow (Kentucky), and? the balloon was wrecked.