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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10582, 11 October 1910, Page 4

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(Per Press Association.) ROYAL VICTIM OF PLEURISY

Received October 11) at 8.30 a.m

" London, October 10. Prince Francis of Teck is seriously id a Balmoral with pleurisj.

FATAL FOREST FIRES/ New j ork, October It). ' The, official list.gives forty; killed by-, forest fires in Northern Minnesota. The pitt, and : Gracetown were- wiped off" the map. - 'Later information,says that /o bodies -have'been= found and; "it is . expected' that the,death"roll will reach 100. Corpses were brought to the railway station- at Beaudette -in waggon loads.;

CHINESE DINNEICTO AMERICANS. .New York, October 10. ' One -hundred of-tlie'wealthiest Chinese merchants* are talking of .giving a. banquet to American. business . men representing- the.; Chambers of Commerce., oil the Pacific Coast. ; SOCIALISM IN JAPAN. - • Vancouver, -October .10. - News by the ,mail^stats that a crusade is cialists in 'Japan"-following" on the discovery. of an alleged plot against the •Emperor. - - * r

..THE' CROP-PROSPECTS. Received October 11, at 8.25 a-m- ---. Loniion/ October 10. ' Th 4 Times r -crop "i r eporte--to v October 1 place the wlieat in Great Britain at 911 per centum; barley, 92.6; oats, 93.

BERLIN STREET RIOTS. "Beijin, October 10." Orderly meetings of 20,000 Socialists protested against the action ot the police in -tlie Moabit district. FRENCH RAILWAY DISPUTE. Received October 10/ at 9-20 p.m. Paris; October 10. The Northern France strike was due 'to the l announcement of a -minimum wage of-five francs a,, day. The .iiJSr contents were those paid on a scale.--COLONIAL MIS AT IN EUROPE. Received October 11, at 11.45 a.m. London, October 10. ' Tho Refrigeration-Congress has adopted a resolution urging the countries which do not produce, sufficient meat tor their own consumption- to repeal the ; measures excluding- refrigerated meat. Mr Robinson (Queensland), Sir W. Hall-Jones (New Zealand), and Mr Coghlan (New South Wales) supported the proposal, unci so also did-tho Russiari, Argentine, and tho United States representatives. , The Agents-General liavo requested Austria. 1 to allow trial shipments to be made of Australian meat. A SOCIALIST MARTYR. Madrid, October 10. On the anniversary of the death of Ferrar, who was executed as ari anarchist last year, 2000 coal-workers visited.his grave at Barcelona. Violent speeches were made -blaming the clerical party for his death. ' The police dispersed the gathering. The Spanish Premier haa;fprbidden references to Ferrer at meetings arranged in Catalonia to protest against tho death penalty and to express sympathy With the revolution in Portugal. INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. October 10. The son of Ghahdi; tho Indian lawyer, and 37 recently arrived Indians not possessed of registration certificates wore before the Court for a breach of ■the regulations. Gliandi and eight others were lined £SO each or three months' imprisonment and. tho rest £25 or six weeks' imprisonment. ELEPHANT SAVES A THOUSAND LIVES. Calcutta. October 10. When the tidal wave washed'; a,way. the pilgrims on the banks of the Ganges an elephant' repeatedlv swam out with ropes attached to it and thus saved a thousand lives* THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT. Received October 1.1, at 11.30 a.m. - London, October 10. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Newmilns, said the cittly issue of the Osborne- judgment:' was ; whether the workers were free to have their own party, if they pay for it,, or tako what representation their -betters we.ro. willing to allow them. v Received October 11, at 9;30 a';m. London,-October 10. Mr John Ward, a. Labor member, speaking- at Cheadle, said; the Osborne decision was the result of, a spirit of •intolerance which had, swept over trades unionism after the formation of the Labor party. . -The insistence on the pledge at the Newcastle conference was a tremendous! blunder. The reversal-of the Osborne decision might take-years. He advocated- the payment of members as a partial solution, of the difficulty.

INFANT SUICIDES IN RUSSIA. Received October 11;-at 11:30 a.m. '

St. Petersburg, October 10. Of 449 suicides in. the Russian schools 13 per cent, aro offieially attributed to failure in examinations.

PRISONERS REVOLT. A ntimber of prisoners, mostly members of: the Castro, party, revolted and escaped- from the Maracaibo Goal after killing several officials. . ; HOME RULE. Received October 11, at 9.30 a.m. London,! October 10. Mr O'Brien, spanking at .Dimmanway, said Messrs Redmond and O'Connor in America, at a .'..moment's notice, declared for the devolution they had'heen denouncing for seven years:- They had thrown over tbo Gladstoniaii soluimo of Home ..Rule• for -tho .sake of the subscriptions . from a few . America n millionaires. .:md .politicians;.. .Mr 'Tim-.Healy. said Messrs Redmond and O'Connor- had dropped Homo Rule for Ireland and-substituted homo rule all round. Ireland .must wait till the freshly-hatched claims of Wales and Scotland were attended to.

STEAMER . IN A .HURRICANE. : . New: Yock,. October 11 It it. believed ' that .the. steamer Himantown lias been lost .off the Mexican coast in a big hurricane.

AMERICAN .OFFICIAL RUDENESS. New yorli, " October TO. ■ Three Frenchmen in possession of £6OO fcashr and-a< letter of credit for : £14,000; were subjected -at New York •to indignities by -the' immigration authorities and underwent rigid iuvestiga:tion. - > ■