HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10459, 19 May 1910, Page 4

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Elect.cic Telegraph—CoryßicnT.]

(Pep. Pkess Association.)

T M C \MON

I'.-cdved Mav 1!). at 12.T0 a.m. IVkin, .May IS. i{;.- an explosion at Canton,. tlic -.vi,. !'■ sid" of a building was blown out. i;. --I--.M- parties hurried to assist. Some :] brl- was an re, and this thoy cx- : i:iU'ii:-)i:'d before the iiames had l.'r.i.hcd t'.io-.c imprisoned by the fallen b aims.

Tin: lax!; company. London, May 18. The New Zealand and Australian Land Coiapany has declared an interim dividend of I per cent.

A CARNEGIE BENEFACTION. London. May 18. Mr Andrew Carnegie has donated £IOOO to the Wellington pit funds. ARTIST'S FREAK. Received May 18, at 11.30 p.m. Paris, May 18. Jean Sala, the well-known Spanish painter, indignant at a portrait of his being skied at the Paris Salon, and failing to induce the Hanging Committee to return his picture, visited the gallery disguised in a wig ,and false beard* and fired four bullets from a revolver at tlie picture. This caused a panic, and women rushed to the doors. Jir.la wai arrested.

LESS'TRAVEL IN ENGLAND.

Received May 19, at 9 a.m. London, May 18. Statistics show tho following de-. creases in the passenger traffic of the railways in the United Kingdom for 1909:" First class 1,565,093, second 3,325,562, third 8,367,833.

GERMAN INFLUENCE IN PERSIA. St. Petersburg, May 18. Tho Russian newspapers are indignant at Germany attempting to extend her political and economic influences in Persia, thus creating unsettled conditions. '

CLEMENCY TO ZULU LEADER. Received May 19, at 10 a.m. Capetown, May 18. Mankulmana, Dinizulu's induna, has been released.