HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10646, 21 December 1910, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

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Received December 20. at 9.55 p.m. j PARIS SHIP CANAL. ! Paris, December 20. ; The cost of the" proposed ship canal to Paris would be £12,000,000.

j FLOODS IN SWITZERLAND. I. r Berne, December. 20. , ! There have been heavy* rains 'in all of Switzerland. The fjowed, damaging the quays and" "railfays. - • -

TURKEY. Jtf GRETE.-- - , - I : December 20 i The National-, Assembly/ deprecatingIy appealed aginst the protecting. Eowers iise of the plirase "Turkey's, sovereign rights" instead of tlie former expression, ''suzerain." , - > ' rI CECIL RHODES' HOME. ' Capetown. December 20. . I The Assembly ■passed 'a' Bill establishing a. Higli Commissionership in Lou- i don, also transferring-to the Government the Estate for the purposes of a national university. CHINESE PARLIAMENT-. Pekin, December 20. Tlie Assembly is presenting a fresh memorial and threatening, to dissolve linless the""'Grand Council is made responsible to the people. I BANK SUSPENDS PAYMENT. Ottawa, December 20. i The Farmers' Bank, with its headquarters at Toronto, and 31 branches •in Ontario, has suspended payment, '['lie capital is a million dollars and the Shareholders number a thousand. } TO GOVERN PORTUGAL. Lisbon,. December 20. j The National Assembly will probably jbe convened for April., .(the constitution it will be designated rthe Legislative Chamber, superseding 'the old bicameral' system. Parliament will be elected triennially. The Chamber elects tlie President, the term being jquinquennial, but he is ineligible for reflection.

CABLE COMBINE. London, December 20, "An : amalgamation, of the Western Union and Anjilo-Amei'ican cable companies, controlling six Atlantic, cables, will leave the Commercial Cable Company as the sole competitor. The latter ideclares its- intention to remain independent. The President of the Commercial ; Company states that when competition ceases the choice will only be between monopoly and Government ownership.

THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE. London. December 19. Tlie • Colonial Institute's enlarged premises have been formally opened.

FRACTIOUS MINERS. "London, December 20. The prosecutions of. the Rhoiidda Valley intimidators at Pontypridd led to a. miner making a threat to attempt their comrade's rescue if they were sentenced, and precautions were taken.

TRAIN SMASH. London. December 20.

At the Willesden railway accident inrtiiiry the verdict, was that the ■accident was due to the signalman pulling the wrong lover.

ROYAL TRAVELLERS. London. December 20. The Duke of Goiinauglit' and party have arrived at Teneriffe.

AT THE MERCY OF THE ■ SEA. London, December 20. Tlie Hamburg-American liner Swakop numd was drifting in the Bay ot Biscay for six days rudderless. The Itzelioe, bound to Melbourne, had great difficulty in towing her to the Channel, and, with other assistance, brought her to Plymouth. , j;..,' ( . _ __ ;

TIDAL WAVEV Madrid, December 20. An immense, wave dashed a vessel to pieces on a reef at Cliiprena, and seven were drowned.

FLOODS IN ENGLAND. London, December 20 The Hoods arc abating.

A LEGAL PUZZLE. . London, December 20. The Court .of Criminal Appeal quashed a conviction, but" the Law Lords reversed their decision. The question now raised is whether the released person could be re-arrested, and the Court of Criminal Appeal lias decided in the affirmative. It will allow the prisoner a fresh appeal, the original sentence to stand if the appeal. fails.

STRIKE RIOTS IN WINNIPEG. Ottawa, December 20. During a street car strike at Winnipeg non-strikers were attacked in the street in a blinding snowstorm. Coal and missiles smashed the windows of twelve cars, and many employees were injured. Ties chained to the rails brought the cars to a- standstill. Ottawa, December 20. A thousand workman sympathisers with "the car-drivers have struck at Winnipeg, and in the riot fourteen street cars were demolished, several men being injured. THE SHARE MARKET. . Received December 21, at 10.45 a.m. London, December 20. Shares: Australian and New Zealand Mortgage £99; Dalgety's £5 12s 6d and £6 2s 6d. '*• SIR HARRY RAWSON'S ESTATE. London, December 21. Admiral. Rawson's estate has been sworn at £16,137. THE FROZEN NORTH. London, December 20. . Sir E. Shackleton and six of his Antarctic associates will start for Spitzbcrgen in June for three months' scientific and geographical exploration. CASE. OF DIVORCE. Received December 21, at 9.45 a.m. London, December 20. In the Pretty divorce case Judge Sir H. Bargrave Deane granted Mrs Pretty a decree absolute on the ground that her husband's cruelty had contributed to her misconduct with Halfpenny. Tlie Judge also stated that that gentleman was willing to marry Mrs Pretty. ROYAL BOUNTY. London, December 21. The King arid the Queen have sent Christmas gifts to the Salvationists and the Church Army. The King told the Rev. W. Carlile, founder of the Church Army, that lie longed to help all poor people and wished he could do so. WIDER FRANCHISE IN ITALY. Roiiie, December 20. i The Government has prepared a Bill extending the franchise to all persons able to read and write, thus aclding a million and. .a-half to . the- electorate. They also propose'obligatory.: voting. A FRENCH .TRAGEDY.

Paris, December 20. A girl Vachc, who killed her mother for resenting her marriage to a-stock-broker, has .been sentenced to ten years' solitary confinement.

PENSIONS IN FRANCE. Rome, December 20. i The Government is preparing a Bill providing supplementary : pensions, for railwaytucn based on the number, of years of service, which has not iliitherto entitled them to'a pension. The annual cost is estimated at seven million francs for 25 years. _•

■ SETTLING CANADA. Ottawa, December;-. 21. During,.;: the past " eteveii - months eleven million acres of land have been disposed of to 'settlers -. in -Western Canada.

GERMAN Y . FEELS HTHIT.

Berlin, Decemher;-20.' Admiral . Reventlow _ denounces- the fraternisation, of American and..English during.! thc-.recen:fc visit, of. the-, fleet to England, and savS that the neglect to visit Germany was a deliberately unfriendly. net amounting to a political demonstration when viewed in connection with the vaporings of the Americans in London.

[Eight thousand American sailors entertained at the Guildhall. Replying to the Lord Mayor's welcome, Commander Ames said lie personally believed that if the British Empire were seriously menaced by an external enemy the British people might count upon every' man, every dollar, and every cfrop of blood from their kindred across the sea.]

;'■:■,. HUGE RAILWAY ORDER. ; Ottawa, December 20. r The Canadian Pacific Railway Company seven million dollars' worth of*J equipment,* delivery to be given :nex£ summer.