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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10673, 24 January 1911, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Ff.r Press Association.) VICTORIA THE GOOD. Received January 23, at 10.10 p.m. London, January 23 In connection with the anniversary of Queen Victoria's death the King and Queen and a large gathering ii' relations attended a service at Frogi more, and laid -wreaths on the sarcophagus. The Kaiser, .sent a wreath.

INSURANCE I&AINST CONSTJMP-•-""-\;TK>N: ■■..■■:■-. • .London,: January 23. Mr Lloyd-George Ms- considering the practicability of dealing with consumptives in. connection..-.with- invalidity insurance. ;

QUAY COLLAPSES. Received January-24, at 0.5 a.m. Paris, January 23. Floods, undermined the Nantes Quay and 80~vards of it collapsed. The damage is-estimated at £20,000. Fifty persons narrowly escaped' injury and death.

IN THE AIR. Received January 24,. at 0.5 a.m. '". Parjs, January 23. Way man at Charlons for 16.} miles, carrying "'three passengers, in 27 minutes.'. SEDITION IN EGYPT. Received JaJ&ry 24 at .9.5 a.m. ..

Cairo, January 23." Mahomed Farid, who was prosecuted for writing a preface to a .book of seditious poems, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

WHEAT DISTRICT ABLAZE. Buenos Aires, January 23. A report has arrived, but is not yet verified, that the whole of the Teodolina wheat district, in , Santa Fe Province, is on fire.

DIVERSION OF POLITICAL FUNDS. Received January 24, at 10.30 a.m. London, January 23.

Owing to the regent; judgment in the Osborne case Justice Neville has allowed the South Wales Miners' Federation to apply compulsory parliamentary levies totalling £14,000 to strike pay and other nonTpolitical purposes.

FROZEN MEAT FOR SWITZERLAND. London, January 23. Sir G. Reid is negotiating with the Swiss Minister regarding the introduction of frozen meat to Switzerland...

AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM. Paris, January 23. The Figaro says that in the event of the Flushing fortification being proceeded with, France, • Russia, Britain and Belgium will withdraw from The Hague Arbitration Court.

INJUSTICE TO CRETE. New York, January 23. The Greeks of New York held a mass meeting to protest against the oppression of Cretans by the. Ottoman Empire, and to ask the President to notify the Powers to prevent tyranny. They predict a revolution that will cost Turkey millions.

VICTORIA'S STRONG FINANCE. . Received January 24, at 8.20 a.m. London, January 23. The Financial News, in an eulogistic article on the finances of Victoria, states that public and.private finance is in such a sound condition that the additional taxation for the purposes of defence and immigration will be scarcely felt.

THE KING'S JOURNEY TO INDIA. London, January 23.

The Express states that the Duke of Connaught will be Regent, while the King is in India, hence his appointment as Viceroy of Canada is.impossible. . Calcutta, •January 23.

The Statesmen announces that the King and Queen will places the.crowns on their own heads, avoiding ecclesiastical participation, so "as not to injure the susceptibilities', of the Hindoos and Mahomedans.

SHARE QUOTATIONS. Received January 24, at 10.10 a.m. Loudon; January 23 "Waiki, buyers 90s, sellers. 82s 6d.

THE BEET' CROP. London,' January 23. Licht estimates that the production of sugar beet so far shows an increase of 715,000 tons, and for the season the increase will be 1,989j000 tons. ; LUNATIC AT THE BANK. London, January 23. A German lunatic, armed with a revolver, was arrested -at the Bank of England, -..,':.'.' DEFAULTING HUSBANDS. Received January 24, at-10;20. a.m. . Melbourne, January 24. Mr Holmah is enthusiastic oyer his New Zealand tour. He found' it a much more important place than he had expected, and hopes as a result of ah interview with Dr Findlay to 'establish reciprocity regarding , defaulting, husbands. ' • . ' .... ; ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN.

Melbourne, -January.24. An unsuccessful attempt.was made to wreck the Melbourne to Ballarat train, large stones being placed on the line.

.'" BATHING FATALITY. ".'■-..• Melbourne, January 24 Two girls, Linda Pearce and Ada Blake, were drowned while bathing in a waterhole at Horsham. WESTRALIA RAILWAYS. ... ..Melbourne,.-January 24. A Bill will be introduced, in the House of Representatives., next session authorising the .construction .of the Port Augusta to Kalgoprlie railway. .