HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10579, 7 October 1910, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Eleohuo TjiLKGiiApn—Copyright. J, .'(Purr Press Association.) THI? CANADIAN PACIFIC. Received; October 7, at 8.40 a.m. Ottawa, October 6. Sir Wm. Vanhorne has voluntarity resigned the chairmanship of tlie Board :of-?jDh - ectors of the; Canadian -pacific, ■but'-"remains-, on the board". Sir IV Shauglmessy was re-elected president.. " THE CONFIDENCE TRICK. Received October 7, at 1.50 p.m. jw ' I London, October G.' Edward Francis, a. bookmaker, lias, been committed for trial at the Maryfebone Court charged with obtaining £IOOO from Montagu Evans, an Australian, by means of the confidence trick. A SCOTCH MARRIAGE. Loudon, October 6. Tlie Peterborough Consistory Court decided that-Mr Hudson, Vicar or Hutrton; Cheney,- was guilty of immorality by contracting marriago after the Scotch fashion while his own wife was living. ... , .. ... ' [Hudson had been separated from his wite for many years.] KAFFIRS MUTINY. Capetown, October 6. The Transkei kaffirs, emploj'ed on the construction of the German railway at Willielmstad, mutinied. Troops suppressed the outbreak, killing twelve and-wounding ten.