HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10506, 14 July 1910, Page 4

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright ] (Per Press Association.) LIVING ON HIS WITS. Received July 13, at 9.50 p.m. London, July 19. • A man named Ruhman, posing as a 'German., Baron Westerhageu, was sentenced to seven years' servitude at the Yorkshire assizes for frauds on women and bigamy. PAN-AM ERICA N CONFERENCE. Buenos Aires, July ,13. Dr Delaplazc, in welcoming the delegates to tlie pan-American Congress, declared there was nothing in American solidarity or the increasing friendship of America for the nations which constituted a danger to the interests of the Old World. THE KING'S COLONIALS. London. July 13. The King's Colonials will in future he designated King Edwards' Horse (King's Overseas Regiment). THE GERMAN FLEET. . London, July 13. The German high seas fleet, comprising thirty battleships and cruisers and fifty torpedocrs, left Kiel for a practice cruise in North Norwegian waters. HARSH IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS. London, June 13. In the House of Commons Colonel Seely, in replv to Mr P. Snowden, stated that Earl Crewe was addressing a communication to Canada concerning the hardship arising from its immigration, regulations. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. Now York, July 13. It is reported that Mr Taft is urging Mr W. Loeh, Secretary to the President, to become a candidate for the Governorship of New York State. His acquiescence is considered doubtful. BANK DIVIDEND. Received July 14, at 5.5 a.m. London, July 13. The Union Bank of Australia has declared in dividend of 10 per cent, and a bonus of 2 per centum.- It is proposed to set aside ;610,000 towards bank premises in the colonics, to add £20,000 to the reserve, and to carry forward £39,000. SELECTION OF MAGISTRATES. Received July 14, at .9.10 a.m. London, July 13. A Royal Commission recommends the Crown to continue to appoint magistrates, with the assistance of a county committee for selection ; it also recommends that working men should ! lie eligible. SPAIN DEFIES THE POPE. Lisbon, July 13. A Royal Decree censures the Archbishop of Braga for suppressing a religious periodical at the Pope's instance without the concurrence of the Crown. Madrid, July 13. Negotiations between Spain and the Vatican have been severed

A GERMAN TRAGEDY. Berlin, July 13. A greengrocer lit ITelmstadt, in Brunswick, shot his wife and tun children doad and severely- injured three otlicr children, and Llicn committed suicide. Poverty was t.lic reason of the crime. 11. 15. IRVING FOR. AUSTRALIA. Received. July 14, at 8.-15 a.m. London, July 13. Mr IT. IS. Irving, ivilh Miss Dorothea Baiid and their company, will visit Australia next year under Mr .1. G. Williamson's management. ROYALTY HONORS A NEW ZKALANDER, London, July 13. At the King's request, Colonel Da vies, of New Zealand, was presented to him at Aldershot. The King and Queen and the Duke of Counaiighl asked him many questions about i lie New Zealand forces. STUDY IN AGRICULTURE. London, July 1."!. Lord Stralheona has given C 10,0(10 to the Aberdeen University for a Chair of Agriculture. CHINESE PIRATES. Hongkong, July 13. Chinese pirates stormed and captured a Portuguese, military post on the Island of Colowai), despite the fire of a Portuguese gunboat, which inflicted heavy losses" on them.