HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10603, 4 November 1910, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

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THE BRITISH CABINET.

Received November 3, at 9-.50 p.m. London, isovember 3. '■The Times anticipates that Lord 1 'Moriev will remain in the Cabinet,;and 'V. Harcourt will become Colonial Secretary. • "The Daily Mail says the Government lias decided to create a new Secretary;,] of "State, and the Department will deal with • the self-governing. Dominions, while the present Department \y,ul. deaL, with the Crown -colonies*. .. thar. the change is due toHhe existing organisation proving" tmsaiisf actor J'.. jto the Dominions, ©specially Australia.; Received November 4, at 9 a.m. London, November o. r. It is officially announced . that Lord i Morley wilLJtiecoine the 1 Council,. and iEarl-Ci'ewo >"fcakes } tlie-India. Office. Mr Harcourt* will be Secretary for the Colonies, and Earl. Beauchamp Commissioner of .Works. , . Received November 4, at 10.10 a.zn. r.- London, November 3. The Chronicle states; that a division of-'the Colonial Office will not be effected; before the Imperial Conference, takes place. | Received November 4/ at 10.55 a.m. London, November 3. No details are made • known ; of the division/' of the Colonial Office, r which; was foreshadowed in Lord Crewe's speech cabled on March 15t1i.. " _ ' , OUR NAVY RIVALS. i: . London, November 3. f Mr G. Lambert, at AYnreham, said tne is bubble panic in. regard to, the navy would collapse upon_the application , pf would have thirteen Dreadnoughts and Britain .twenty. In the i'olowmg j'ear Britain would have 25, plus the two colonial Dreadnoughts, and Germany would have 17. Britain's pre-Dread-noughts carried 152 12-inch guns com r . pared with 40 11-inch on Germany's pre-Dreadnouglits. Mr Balfour's talk of a naval loan betokened, a lack uf confidence in the tariff to form a. means of finding the money. He wished the Veto Conference w r ould settle. the naval standard, and entrust the carrying cf: it out to the Admiralty, .and so banish the "fever created by panic-mongering politicians. ' POLITICS IN FRANCE. London, November-. 3; .-,. Renter's Paris correspondenturepprts. that M. Briand has emerged from the strike and the strike debate enhanced in- prestige, but his next task ,is that of • devising measures to safeguard the country ;from anarchy, and it requires a homogenous Government. The recent troubles will result in the- regrouping of parties. BANDIT CHIEF DEPOSED.' Tangier, November. 3., Raisuli has fled; abandoning the Governorship of Alcazar. He left tribes starving, and consequently,.; they.; lev olted and killed all the .slieiks Other tribes are joining those iivirevolt.; It'is expected that Raisuli will take refuge in Tangier. , y ;

HOME RULE. . London, November 3. Lord Macdonnell, at Dublin,, stated that he had Earl , Dunraven's. concurrence in the following, definition of devolution. It postulated the maintenance of an Imperial controlling .Parliament at Westminster ; a representative Irish Assembly, with legislative and administrative functions controlling the executive and dealing purely with the Irish; the Treasury to furnish funds m the manner indicated in the Irish Council's Bill; and the continuance of the British .Treasury's responsibility for. tinancial land purchase. Received November 4, at 10.10 a.m. London, November 3. The Pall Mall Gazette says Lord MacDonnell's scheme is unsound' both in finance and policy and is condemned at the outset by the unfaii: and extravagant demands on the British taxpayers. LIBERAL DIVORCE LAW. Lisbon, November 3. The divorce law will be decreed on Friday. It grants divor.ce o.n the. grounds of. adultery or ; desertion, for ten years, on the ground of insanity if incurable after three years, on the grounds of long imprisonment or mutual consent after two years from date of marriage, both parties being over 25 years. The custody of the children is given to the applicants for. divorce, but must be maintained by the divorced parties. * . .

BANKRUPT CHRISTIAN SOCIETY. London, November 3.. The Society for Promoting Christian knowledge has exhausted its reserves owing to the expenditure exceeding the income to, the extent of £30,000 in the past four years. The Archbishop of Canterbury commends an urgent appeal for additional help.

HUGE TASK OF THE POST .OFFICE. London, November 3. The Post - Office report shows that during the year it handled five thoivsand million-, packets, including three thousand,million letters, _and eight,, hundred and sixty-six million postcards. There is a tendency for the number of letters to decrease owing to the use of tho telephone. PARTITION OF PERSIA. Received November 4, at 0.40 a.m. London, November 3. At a meeting of Mohammedans in London, tlio chairman stated that the Musselman world thought the partition, of Persia was going to bo effected. Mr Ramsay Macdonald said that, as., a Britisher, ho bowed his head in shame lat what liad happened. ; > He l hoped Sir E. Grey was not going to allow Britain's name to be dragged behind tho Russian bureaucracy as an asset of, Russia's Asiatic- policy. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND STATE HELP. • London, November 3. Mr : Lloyd-George lias submitted a. tentative State insurance scheme .toltlie Grandmaster of the Manchester Unity, and writes suggesting that ho. will shortly confer with the friendly societies: ;

' " VICEROY OF INDIA. -London, November; 3. Lord Haidmge, the new Governor :General, has embarked' for India.

- TRADE.RECIPROCITY. i Received November 4, at 9 a.m. ,j h .■■■ ■ Ottawa,. o i Criticism is being directed against |the reciprocity agreement between iCanada and the United States on; the, 'ground that .the former is merely opening the door to its "neighbor's trusts and manufacturers. " j Mr-Ejeilding, Minister of Finance,j!. announces that negotiations are now proceeding; the proposals being based on freer exchange of natural products ;aud raw material. -British preference ;will be untouched. Tlie. -.'conference w J ill probably last,; three weeks. _ ... ,

TO RAISE THE MAINE

| New York, November 5. k Divers are working at Havana! attempting toj-raise the Maine. , Colonel Brady., the investigator who reported to President- M'Kmley after the war,' announces that he believes ,rthe ship was blown up by the Spanish electrician, ' Jose Zavaldo. > . - , ■ Zavaldo 'was afterwards executed -for a cause not assigned. „ j -BANK NOTES FOR REVOLTJ-TION-ARIES. ' New York, November 5. .' j - President Estrada, of Nicaragua, irequests the relcaso of Secreest, arrested at Chicago in connection with printing unauthorsed Nicaraguan notes. Secreest, it is alleged, was authorised .by the revolutionaries.

HORSE-BREEDING. London, November 3. The Government has granted £40,000 per annum to encourage horse-breeding. POLICEMEN IN STRIKE RIOT. New York, November 5. Sixty armed policemen charged thousands of garment-workers, who were

noting at Chicago. The mob attacked i factory. T-i-One policeman was stabbed aud it) rioters were seriously wounded.. A score of arrests were effected, including several women. . Sewing machines were dragged into the stre.et from the factory: and smashed. ~ _ SUCCESSFUL AUSTRALIAN - ACTRESS. - \ November 3. - --Dolly' Castles ;Kas r; beeii 'engaged as principal girl at Drury Lane' pantomime. PLAGUE IN ENGLAND. ~" London, November 3. The leading medical experts have initiated a strong movement in favor or the Goveraipient' organising an universal destruction. 1 of- rats in order to exterminate.plague, germs. : , • The outbreak m Suffolk is attributed. to manure shipped to London containing the sweepings of Argentine cattle-snips with* the remains of rats and other animals. , ■ Received November 4, at 10.55 a.m. London, November 3. : Plague rats have been found on vessels >in' ! the Thames; Stringent precautions have .been taken. FORM FOUR. , London, November 3. ; Tlie-'Marqus of Northampton had hundreds of copies of Form 4, and filled them in without difficulty. Received November 4, at 10.55 a.m. London, November 3. The King's Bench dismissed - the appeal' of the; West Riding Land Association .against the filling up - of; Form 4 lor the purpose of taxation. RAILWAYS IN THE STRAIT; SETTLEMENTS. Singapore, November 3. The Government will spend a million sterling on railway extension next year. EX-KING'S FORTUNE. London, November 3. The Tate Portuguese Ambassador denies the report that ex-Kirtg Manuel is purchasing a royal yacht for one hundred"thousand sterling, and saj's it is doubtful it the ex-.Lving possesses a hundred thousand reis. (1000 reis are equal to 4s 9d.). \ THE CRIPPEN MURDER. London, November) 3. Miss Le Neve paid-a visit. Received November 4, at 10.55 a.m. London, November 3. Mr Tobin lias decided to appear in Crippen's appeal. , CONVICT DEMENTED. London, November 3. •Mrs Willyams, recently sentenced for forgery," lins been committed to a lunatic asylum..* GERMAN ...ENTERPRISE. ■ Berlin, November 3. The German-Abyssinian .Company proposes to establish n. coaling and provisioning - depot at Jibutil, a French colony, to avoid tho heavy harbor dues