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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10578, 6 October 1910, Page 4

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[Bt EtECTUtc Telegraph—^Copyright.] ' (Per Press Association:) THE CHOLERA SCOURGE. Marseilles, October 5. Three passengers from the East have arrived at Marseilles suffering from cholera. The passengers, who have been in contact with them, have been isolated. Every precaution is taken, and the officials insist that Marseilles cannot be considered as an infected port. Received October 5. at 9.3-5 p.m. New York, October 5. The steamer Santa. Anna, from Naples, was quarantined at Now York, owing to a cholera case. RAILWAY COLLISION. Received October 0, at 9.35 p.m. New York, October 5. Twentv-cight persons were killed and 25 injured in a collision between an excursion and the local Illinois train, 1 near Granite City, Illinois. DETERMINED SUICIDE. New York. October 5. Daniel M'Millan, a dynamite export, employed in the North American asbestos mines, Caspar, Wyoming, committed suicide by placing a hundred pounds of dynamito under his body, and he was blown to atoms in the mine level, which was wrecked. THE NATIONAL GUARD. New York, October 5. Tho United States National Guards, at a conference at St. Louis, demanded that Congress place them on the army salary list. MAKING SOLDIERS. New York, October 5. ■ " General Wood desires that every _boy above 13 years of age should be trained as a. soldier. Rifle shooting sliould-form part of the school course. The United States standing army was far too small, and 140,000 men at least were neces-| sary. ■ . . A CONFESSION. I New York, October 5. - The messman of the steamer City,of.: Seattle confessed to the robbery, and fho others were released. , , - COLLAPSE OF STAGING. New York, October 5. • • Forty-three passengers were, injured owing ,to the reviewing stand overlooking; a carnival parade at Kansas City, Missouri,, collapsing. < NEW ZEALAND FLAX. Received October 5, at 11 p.m. " ■ • London, October 5. ■ The grand diploma of the- Buenos Ayres Exhibition has been awarded\-to New Zealand flax. THE NEPTUNE'S GUNS. - Received October 5, at 11.40 p.m. - London, October 5. The battleship Neptune's gun trials were completely successful. Her 'ten 12-inchers were simultaneously fired- as a. broadside, with full charges. ' . * SACKING A BAZAAR. •Bombay, October 5. . A Dacca telegram reports that '3O men,' apparently . Hindus, , with false beards, .sacked the Haldighat - bazaar, killed one and wounded five persons, . and-seized: one hundred sterling. They escaped in boats. - ■-■- - • OBITUARY. Received October 6, at 9.35 a:m. . _ London, October 5. . ■'- Obituary—Ruth.JEdder, the child: of Sir ~ Francis- ,Hopwood, « Permanent - Under-Secretary' for- the. Colonies, on the evo of his' departure for South Africa. ■ • DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. Received "October 6, -at 8.10 p.m. " Paris, October 6. . A bank collector: was ,robbed:; of a satchel containing. £2280 on'the JBoulevttrd des Italiens in daylight. _ Two' Englishmen K&ve been arrested and'another escaped. -• A LOVE TRAGEDY. ;■ . - Rome, October 5. . Tlie' supposed jboy - who shot Felice Naxdiellojin the streets; and lay sobbing on.; the Jbody when arrested:;.- has; been discovered to be- a: girl in boy's clothes. She:-adopted the disguise out .of revenge on hearing that Nardiello was' going to marry another woman. ■ REAL TRAGEDY ON THE STAGE. Madrid', October's." Senor Sorel, the director of the rAotualidadis Theatre at Cartagena, refusM Gonalez, the actor,- a -part in a • play'. -Gonalez, later/ cut. Sorol's throat with-a razor; and the man died on-the stage. The audience-was panicstricken'.- Gonalez has-been arrested. BUSH FIRE. "Received Octolief 6, at 11.15 a.m.• - New York, October 5. ; A bnsli fire destroyed Gracetown, a -Minnesota village. The.-inhabitants are 1 b'elieved/to have" escaped, but: are still "unaccounted for; AUSTRALIAN MEAT. Received October 6,.- at' 11.35 a.m. : ? • London, October 5. - :Sjr- G. ,Reid gave a luncheon to the .-•liieihbers'.of the Vienna Chamber, of Commerce, whose visit to Englknd is the'.outcome of the agitation re the Austrian meat supply. . Another depuprobaibly going to the tine»: Sir G. Reid urged them to visit Australia, and enquire into the whole process.of slaughter and shipment.. AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. ' • Paris, October 5. : The brothers Morane, while aeroplaning, fell near St. Cloud. Onr. broke his leg and the other fractured ?'• his skull. • I THE ASIATIC TROUBLE. ! ■ • Capetown, October 5. Thirty-two Asiatics, arriving . from India, \ claimed domiciliary rights ir South Africa, but wore prohibited fron landing- here. DISASTROUS FIRE. - Monte Video, Octobor 5. - The fire extended and destroyed the wharf. The losses are estimated at - quarter of a mil Hon. . .