HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10526, 6 August 1910, Page 4

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[Bt Electric Telegraph—CopYßinnx ] | (Per Press Association.) THE MAYFLOWER PILGRIMS. Received August 6, at 9.4'1 a.m. ; , New York. August G. The President formally dedicated a monumqnt 3-17 foot high, costing £1602, ill inoniory of the Mayilower pilgrims at Pnncctov.'ii. 1 THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE. London. August 5. Tlie.Duko of Connaught. has accepted tin; presidency of the Colonial Institute. BUILDING SOCIETY BUSINESS. London. August 5. The directors of the Hearts of Oak Building Society state that they have 2 reserve of c3.i02,000 and a deficiency onlv'exists-if thev are'called on to pay all. claims together, a contingency which is -unlikely to-arise.

TORPEDOES. London, August 5. The Admiralty lias decided on an important extension of the torpedo factory at' Port Matilda, on the Clyde. INHUMAN CRUELTY. St. Petersburg, August 5. Beggars at Krasiiohrod kidnapped and. educated to their ' calling the daughter of a wealthy family who was then blinded and crippled and sent begging. "She recognised her mother's voice at'.'a church door. Seventy or the beggars" have been .arrested. SPAIN AND-THE POPE. ; ~ Madrid, August 5. • The "Catholics continue their preparations for a demonstration at San Sebastion and the Government are sending more- troops. Received August G, at 9 a.iii. " Madrid, August 5. > -The Government requisitioned the special trains and steamers. ; which were intended to carry 80,000 Catholic demonstrators to San Sebastian on Sunday.- The Government will use them for troops wherewith to repress the demonstration, which the Catholics are determined to hold. : Madrid, August o. "The Governor of San Sebastian is issuing orders forbidding Catholics to form'groups or enter the town. TROUBLE IN THIBET. Calcutta, August 5. The Times of India deprecates any departure from the Thibetan treaty, and adds that it is illogical to contend that China should not take measures'to make her voice respected m Lhassa. Received August 5, at 9.20 p.m. London, August o. " The newspapers criticise the' Thibetan policv in leaving the ; Chinese to reestablish dominion- while Russia and Britain' have ■ mutually agreed not to interfere. Colonel Yoiinghusband. hi an -article in the Times, advises Bri-tain-to-approach Russia. . ! Simla. August 5. -"'Thibetan traders ridicnb the auggestion that the British agencies are endangered'. The Thibetans' passive resistance- 4s' -making it difficult for the Chinese to get rations." " FATAL FIRE IN BOARDING- - - HOUSE. New York, August 5. -Seven lives were lost by lire in a lodging-house c:i Long Island. SPOILING /THE WINE. Paris,. August 5. - Rain has devastated the vintage in France. -At Bordeaux disease has ruined' half the crop, and prices arc rising in -Paris. ■ THE ACCESSION OATH. Received August 5, at i .10 p.m. London, August o. ' Archbishop Bourke has written to Mr Asquitli thanking him for the courage, determination, and tact shown in dealing with the Declaration Bill. DIPLOMATIC CHANGES. London. August 5. Sir G. W. ' Buchanan, the British Minister at the Hague, has been appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburg, arid Sir R. S. Paget, Minister a-t -Munich, has been appointed to Bel- , gradS. : r THE TURKISH FLEET. - , Constantinople, August 5. - Tjhri Government is purchasing not two'but four German battleships of the Braiidenburg class. A PRACTICAL MEMORIAL. - . London, August 5. The Lancashire County Council is investing £IO,OOO sterling in the share! of the- British. Cotton Growing Assocmtiori'as a memorial to King Edward. • POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN , AMERICA. Received August 6, at 0.15 a.m. New York, August o. ■ Mr Gore, giving evidence before the Congressional enquiry, .stated that the agents of thejM'Alurniy syndicate had rotfered- fifty thousand dollars if tho> .withdrew*- the resolution opposing the sale.of 450,000 acres of coal and asphalt lands; belonging to the Choctaw and Chicasaw Indians, for which a New York syndicate was paying thirty mulion dollars as bribes. He said A icePresident Sherman was interested in tlit M 'Murray contracts. Mr Sherman replied that Mr Gore-s statement had i.io foundation ill fact.

GEOGRAPHY AS SHE IS TAUGHT. London, August 5. Mr- Coglilan examined forty books dealing with Australian geography in use .in. the London County Council s schools, and' states that the majority are misleading and convey a yery_fal.se impression. He considers it almost useless to continue the Press campaign to advertise. Australia, when school books are so defective. -THE FEDERAL NOTE ISSUE. .>r..\ ; ... ... London, August 5. Tiie Tinted, in its financial "supplement, says its .Sydney cor respondent: condemns the Federal note issue. It is":brought forward partly as a wliim and; pdmy as a desire to. borrow without' appearing- to borrow. Since the banks -cannot afford to store note's and gold';it 'will..have the effect of depleting the gold stock,- which enabled Australia/to ship 20 millions sterling after the -T9OS" drought. APAGHE BOMBS. Paris, August 5. A powerful bomb wrecked the house of—a ; well-known anarchist and apache .detective' lit - le Y a.llois. The detective was absent lioiiday making, hilt the caretaker was severely injured. Several passers-by were stunned. ri i -A STOLEN SCHEME. f- Loudon, August 5. , TKe Unionist papers protest that Lord Carrington has stolen Sir Gilbert Parker's'; agricultural banks scheme. OFFICER. DECAPITATES DOCTOR. Received August 6, at 9.a.m. London, August o. The Daily Express' Bucharest correspondent reports that Captain Grigorin, of the artillery, quarrelled with Dr. Frunzesau. a lawyer, in a street at Botasani. Dr. Frunzesau attempted to horse-whip him when the captain refused to accept a challenge lor a d'lel, and the latter drew his sabre and decapitated Frunzesau with a single blow. The head rolled into the gutter, and- the onlookers tried to lynch the captain, who kept them at bay with a sword until the police arrested liiiu. COMPUf.iSOHV SERVICE IX SPAIN. Madrid. August 5. The Cabinet has approved of a Bill for the compulsory military service < f all Spaniard-;. TOWN v. ('OI'XTKY IX CANADA. Ottawa. Angus!' ■">. A-mass mei ting of fanners of Southern - Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg denounced the maiiulatturers. who were growing rich at the expense of the producers. If it were wrong lor a Conservative Government to inaugurate protection, it was doubly wrong tor a

professed freetradc Premier to perpetuate it. Sir W. Laurier, replying, reiterated his devotion to i'reetrade. Protection was a great \vrnllL r . and made millions | dishonest one with another, and. inculcated the vicious principle of expecting value where none was given. HOME It CLE FOR SCOTLAND. Received August o. at 10.30 p.m. London, August 5.

" Tile Scottish National Committee, including* Messrs - Monro, lergusoii', Henry. Dalsdo!, and eighteen other members of',the ! louse of.Commons lias issued a manifesto to the people of Scotland, which declares . that. the settlement of,the constituency question o/Ters opportunity of recognising Pa riiamontary business on the basis of devolution, and urging 'Scotland's ftiahii as being as urgent as Ireland's. The Scottish Office is the closest of the bureaucracy system, and must .be- revised, leaving each part of the Kingdom to control its own affaire, and .Parliament , to transact the business of the Empire. A PR EDATOR Y TRIBE. .Constantinople,.-August 5. Tt is officially stated' that the Druse I victims numbered a thousand.