HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10598, 29 October 1910, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE GORSE HALL MURDER

[By ELhCTi'it TLMGP\nr—Copmiight]

(Per Pi?ess Association)

;■>■■:■:- FALL IX CONSOLS. Received October 20, at 9.20 a.m. London, October 28. The Financial Times, reviewing, apart from politics, the gradual fall in consols, emphasises extension of the "scope of trustee investments, and more ■ especially the; improvement of the credit of foreign countries, notably the United States and the larger South American Republics and Japan. Consols are now merely primus' inter pares, aiid are weighed against those of Government bonds all over the world, even against the highest class of railways; and industrial stock. ,;

London. October 28. Wilde has received cabled evidence to rebut the identitv of the revolver. rWilde had been in the army, and .comrades gave evidence that while stationed at Gibialtar they saw the revol-; Ver.'afterwards found by Store's body, in the"possess3on of accused ] ' 'Mark Wilde has been acquitted'of the charge of murder Storrs.

. ' HOME RULE. ' ,„ '• 'V ' .Londonj October 28' ' Lord Hugh 'Cecil, writing- in' the Jimes, states that Irish Home Rule is iiifiencTed to recognise the„senarate. na- ' •fjoriaTitj' of " Ireland in the Imperial' TedTration. It is intended,to orjgamse ''aTsingle nationality for the Empire, in wHicli Canada, Australia, South Afiica, 'and"New Zealand Will come forward to "declare their pride and satisfaction in 'sharing the same national existence as the United Kingdom would M> |is a singular way or organisiug the Empiie ,as"a single nation to begin admitting the existence of two nations within theC United Kingdom. He hoped "bejuifthinkable that any Unionist*leader would treat Home Rule expedient. , • "?\ " i London, October 28. > '^.h'active newspaper discussion is]go-, ingVoVoVer Home Rule all-iound. reflecting the opinions cx'pressed by"*'Pacificus," hegs,the Union- • Tsfs"tt6, consider the want of wisdom in refusing an enlarged conference. . r ,Mr Macdonald, Labor M.P., writes to th'c Times piotestmg against the slan*ders and false reports based on the of•'fensivc assiunption thut a woikmg class - party must be morallv infejioi to one composed of plutocrats and aristocrats.: 'Ho recalls Trofessoi Hamson's views to 'the contrary published in a letter to the Times on September Bth, 1906.

MIGHT IS RIGHT - Pans, October 28,. ? There was grcati,merruneiit during ihe Adjourned debate m> the''CMmbei 'bf J 'Depufees. "While M "•BonncliJ a Socialist miser deputy, was 'nistifymg Hhe-'ctestruction r -of rails, bridges, and '-runnels on the ground-that the railii.a.% - strikers were engaged m a social saiaVthej we're entitled to take J 'the! same steps'"as M Lebrmi himself m-the case of* a. foreif n imasion.

THE KAISER 1 IN BELGIUM-' , " Brussels, October 28 v *Tlio Kaiser's visit has ended The 4onger it lasted -the more cordial was the ieception u k . "-■ * Berlin, Octobei 28. * The lladic.il and semi-Socialists, says tlife Tageblatt, resent -.the Belgian Socialists' busying themselves with the dvpehigsherg" speech, which was exclusively' a 'diiestion between the Germans and.the Kaiser ' , . ;, , Brussels/Octobei 28. ' ExtrnordifLarj -precautions weie observed nt the Kaiser's, departure owing , to? a* letter from a dangeious anarchist declaring that he would hull a bomb at him. ' , „

t POSTAL REFORMS tl2 ' London October 28 " 31r Henmker iHcaton has sent Mi Herbert Samuel, the Postmaster-Gcnc-raL, a progiainme- of 62 informs which hd considers aio still needed He hopes a universal pennj postage w ill signalise the coronation,year.

. EBULLITION IN BRAZIL '' " ' r New York, October 28. 'Passengers'rrom-Mantos attribute the fight to Colonel "Bettencourt's ignoring I the JTederal Government's summons to resign. They -mention 186 as killed ' '[Tlie Opposition, assisted bj the "troops, turned Colonel Bcttencourt, President of the State of Amazon as, out of office ]

SUNDAY TRAFFIC IN CANADA

London, October '2B. ' The decision o,f,tbe Canadian Railway Commission hi allow ing the Cana-dian-Pacific'to handle fi eight and passenger steamers'at lake poits on Sundays will be appealed against, as it is in contravention of the Government's Lord's-Daj Act. )? - PLAGUE SCARE

Received,October."2B, at <J 40 pin ~ . ,1,..,' , London, October 28 ' i JrEe.landing of rats from foieign, ports ashore of the body of .i Ijiggiieiinf.ected rat is the only explanation. of^the. l outbreak -*■* Suffolk. A' treof tho rodents i9&rqpfeeding«,betwee]i the rivers Oiwell 'Cats and hares besides lats ?at%"t"6und dea'd. * '

.Received .October 29J at 12.20 a.m. -'- - '*• ''"' London, October 28 been found at Cliptonj m'Suffollk. ' - \

Received October 29*, at 9.20 a m /,! _\ .Jv , Laildou, Octobei 28. The Local Government "Board deprecgtpp Y the plague. •. .

'-INSANITY INCREASE ALARMING. Received October 29," at 9 20 a m. \"' ' '•-"* ' -'London, October 2gf ' S D*h Forbes' "Wfnslow, giving evidgnce "beloife'tKe Divorce Commission, stated at an cnoim'o'us ra£e. ' In'lßs9"there was only one lunatic in 536 jpeisons, and now theio was "one in 277. " t ,

MOSQUE IN LONDON. ; ', *: October 28. > , oubscriptjpns have been opened to establish/ a mosque in London for the beriefitlof'oriental student visitors, also &<]ibrar^ s aiid'lec,turjß room to discuss alf sußj&cts.'except politics. I

'j\ ;, ARTISTJS-EOR-TUNE. ■ I ">V~*,'' ' \ v " London, October 28. ] Mr-Holman'Hunt's estate is valued atJST.S,B33. ' j

UNREST IN AMERICA. Received "October 28, -at 10.30 p.m. '•' "■' J ''New York, October-28. 1r " The .express'waggpn-drivers' strike at Manhattan causVdriots, * but thej were not serious,. ""The strike-breakers have beeiVsumnione"d.' Trouble is expected Georgia.

STATE SERVANTS AND LABOR ' UNIONS. Pans, October 28. ■ The Couit of Appeal, in confirming tho dissolution of the Postal Eniplojeejs Union, ; declares that the law of 1884 concerning labor organisation does not apph to employees in tho postal telegraph and telephonic serwees, but only to workmen, the seivants ot empkners onjo\ing the samp right to organise also hold that the postal employees .i suboid'ii.itis of the State, cannot claim t])i> i.ime relations as, those submitted between employers and emplojed, who are treo to discuss their respective interests. , GREEK POLITICS. | Athens, October 28. The M i\ i omidialists and the Theotokists have declared a political" strike for the election, arguing that Venezelos protes>&> to enjoj the confidence of the Crown and people, and sits in the chamber aside PRISON DLisTROIKD B\ FIRE. New York. October 2S. A prison at Milledycville was destroyed by, fire. Two hundred prisoners were removed, aud seven escaped. HEALING BY FAITH. Received October 29, at 10.25 a.m. J London. October 28. Ten medical men and ten clergymen held a meeting.at the Chapel House rf I St., Paul's Cathedral to privately d'.s- I cuss the question of co-operjition be- +--■■" ■ihe Church, and the medical pro-

fession. in relation to the healing of the Sick.' The conference was the outcome of the spread of faith-healing in England

FELL AIUOXG THIEVES. Ott n\ i Oitobei 28 Tho Roman Catholic Archbishop Laii£,evin oi it Hnnituc .Manitoba was the victim oi iootpads <it New Himpshue, and was lehcved of money and valuables, but war: not harmed. ROYAL JREFUGEE. " " Londonj October 28. Tlie King and Queen visited the exKing of' Portugal; at "Wood-Norton'. FLORENCE ' NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL. >, * " London',. October 28. Afi 'influential meeting, 3 presided;over by Lore!'Beresford, 'resolved to airange for an empire memorial to Florence Nightingale. ~- ' - ' - -> ' THE" RED "CROSS "SOCIETY. •",*""* Berne, 28. Obituary—Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red; Cross- Society. THEFT OF-EXPLOSIVES. '

. Paris, October 28. A large -quantity of explosives has been stolen from a_rairn;ay waggon in transit between Nantes and \ ernon.

A NEW K.C.- - *V London, Octobei 28. Mr Timothy Healy is among the new King's Counsels, r- -' ■ -