ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10675, 26 January 1911, Page 4

ADDITIONAL CABLES.

(Australian Press Independent Service.) The Turkish Government will have to make another fight to get possession of the £900,000 which was deposited with a German bank by the Sultan of Turiev, Abdul Hamid. About a month ago the Imperial Supreme Court decided that the bank niiist surrender the funds, but a. son-iiir-law of Abdul Hamid has since applied for an attachment against the ex-Sultan for damages sustained at his hands in Turkey. It is reported that the Turkish Government have located another big deposit which Abdul Hamid.is said to have standing to his credit in an American bank. The autobiography of Wagner, the famous German composer, the existence of which has been a matter of doubt for sonie years, is to be published in May next:,, < A remarkable lawsuit has just been initiated against Mr James Patten, the erstwhile "Wheat King." The action is one. in which ,the president of the Chicago Anti-Gambling League seeks to recover damages to the amount of £120,000. Tlia" plaintiff disclaims having lost any money as a result of Patten's operations in the wheat market. The action lie has instituted is taken under a statute of Illinois State, which provides that any person having a knowledge of gambling transactions may recover three times the total losses suffered'by the victims. The Supreme Court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has quashed the sentences passed upon six prominent politicians, thus ending the sensational "graft" cases in which these men were involved in connection with the contract for the building of the new State Capitol. The accused returned £300,000 to the Treasury, but it is said that not less than £1,000,000 was misappropriated. Important cvidenco was given before the Divorce Commission, sitting in London, by Sir Edward Carson, K.C. The Commission were engaged on the question of the amount of damages that should bo allowed to husbands whose wives were divorced on the- ground of infidelity. Sir Edward Carson said that, generally speaking, the damages awarded in divorce cases were inadequate. It would have a salutary effect, ho stated, if they were made much heavier. For instance, a man who:was adjudged guilty of misconduct with another man's wife, and who had an income of from £20,000 to £30,000 a year, should be made to pay, not £4OOO or £SOOO as damages, but £IOO,OOO. Asked if he favored the principle of leaving the assessment ofi? damages to the Judges, Sir Edward said he thought Judges were inclined to be even more parsimonious in the matter of assessing damages than juries were. For months past the Czarina has been very ill, principally, it is said, owing to anxiety for the safety of her son. Now the .information has leaked out in St. Petersburg that she is dying. The information comes from a very good source. It is that the Czarina, has been attacked by paralysis, which has extended from the feet to the arms and legs,: and that her condition is extremely critical. The very serious nature of the 'Czarina's condition is being kept a •strict secret at the Court, but it is significant that all Court fetes and entertainments have been postponed. The contingents of colonial troops to the Coronation festivities will aggregate 2000, of winch 5 per cent, will be officers. They will camp at Alexandria Park, in North-east Loudon. The festivities will begin on June 19th, and will 'continue until Jime 30th. Already the hotels-along the route have raised their rates. One hotel announces that their price will be £lO 10s a week. Harry Fraser a theatre manager, of New lork and Chicago, has bid £IO,OOO for a 20-round ' boxing bout between Jack Johnson -and 'Alf Kaufmann. If the men will agree as to the division of the purse, the match will take place at the new Stadium, London, during Coronation week.