HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10716, 15 March 1911, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[Br Elecxeic Telegraph—Coptbiqht.l '(Per Press Association.) _ CANADA'S POPULATION. Received March 14, at 9.45 p.m. ■'■]■'■ ■ Ottawa, March 14. -, i-TKe-immigrants for the nine months of- : tbe current fiscal year numbered - 253,000,: 86;000 being Britishers and Americans. The remainder were ■ ?EttropeaUi non-Britishers. '-. FAVORET) NATION. TREATMENT. ' ''\£- x ''.:■: :: : :;...■;.,.. Oftaw/a; March 14. ' W,"jj&nrier intends', to demand at ,tfi& "Imperial Conference' the abrogation 'jjf nation agreement affect'ing'Ganada. "■,-"„ •>-.•.-•-'■■. London. March.23. Sahdys,_ thp Uiilonist ineinber Ion:. Law," tlie prohyiiierit jTJnibnist', "defeated at last clebtiph, to stand. THE GLAPHAM COMMON MURDER. ".'..-.'i.'-t'-".".' . Londdhj March J3. , f | Stefn'er' Morrison's defence suggests ;lliat\tHb iiiurder was the outcome of a desire i'or Nihilist revenge on liiui. ; bISJCiiARATION OF LONDON. ..-H..„ :,'-. ',.-. . Lqndon, March 14. . . ; T}ie.^debate on the Declaration of Londbi :Kas. been resumed, vSalisbury. complained .of the PpsTOoiieirieht of the redress for seizures unwL.the'wear's terminatipii. The. enemy to captoire foodstuffs iirid.nbt the upshot.. . Mbrley said . the Declaration mi^hlTTbe. open to amendment, but ( its rgec£ib'n,or postponement would cause gigve; r "disappointment "and irritation abroad..: , .... . .;'

IJbrdlDesbbrough withdrew liis niotion a Royal Commission, expressing dissatisfaction at.the Goverumjent not taking the nation into its confidence.

TO EXCLUDE INDIANS. . _-..' i.. . -. Capetown, March 14. .—.The Immigration Restriction Bill was road a second time. PjttSdNERS FIGHT THEIR GUARDS. -,,-' ...-.' New York, March 14. ..;JWfcy prisoners killed their guards and-escaped from gaol-at Vera. Criiz.. -The£, were pursued, by the police, and \aiiunning fight was kept up in the streets', where several people were kill-' ; «Lt'.';. ..._ . ■_;■ -,,7Tlie niajority of the convicts escaped to the woods. TO FORTIFY PANAMA, vr-' •■* New York, March 14. > :«Jfc: Roosevelt, at Dallas, Texas, declared that the failure to fortify tfte igaijama Canal was criminal folly. The jjpy- existing treaties were those with Britain and Panama, .'and the other nations conld destroy the Canal in war time :'_■... . A NEW ZEALAND LOAN. Received March 15, at 10.45 a.m. .„ r. - London, March ' 14: l%e Christchurch Tramway Board is issuing; £6rj4oo 4J debentures at 103. ' j- ■; ■•_;;_ FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE, iVTarch 15, at 11.5 a.m. ' '-'j''.£-t : •-. '■''... •.''■'■ ..London, March 14.-"-^-:Sue:thousand men are working night ! erecting 300 ibuUdings for the Bcpijcal; of .Empire. There will be 600 "..v^^lfoVs r J" the alKßritish exhibition • -watliiii tJic-..palace.'.. ,*■ ri£ Clubs for. colonial visitors are being opcjicd. at Sydenliam, Knightsbridge, ■ a'iid Crystal Palace. '■.teiid.sixt.een fiiltdress rekearsids in;con- ■; iioctibn-rmth ilie Pageant, of. Empire. " acres will;he devoted to sheep, ■ paW'e^.poultry, butter, and fruit a% the eshrbitioh in cohhection with the Agri- . .ejiltural Congress. >;..;.' HER COURAGE FAILED.". J ."--V, •'."' Berlin, March 14. • , \Mathilde Runge. wife of a drunken -Jpater, fearing her husband's'cruelty, . brewed coffee with "cyanide of pntasit. She dressed her children -i'in;'cleah linen and donned a black dress. (lie children, but then her " courage failed, ami she did not commit suicide