HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10762, 9 May 1911, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegram—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) CANADA'S INVASION. London, May 7. Three thnm-aml emigrants started for Canada' on Saturday. TI! AGEDY IN AN ASYLUM. London, May 8. During gardening operations an inmate of ISeliast asylum killed a man with a "hopper and Wounded two others la tally.

A PLETHORA Or DYNAMITE. Received May at U--I<> a.m. Paris, May {?.

J-'oul- and a-hall pounds of dynamite rart ridges v. ere found against a garden feur-ij at Kpeiuay. It is thought the owner got rid of it, fearing a domiciliarv search.

EDWARD MEMORIAL NI'RSES. Capetown, May 8. Tin- Viscountess Gladstone, through the press and local authorities throughout South Africa, appeals for -£IOO,OOO

to establish an order of nurses as a memorial to King Edward. Colored and native subscriptions are to he kept separate, and devoted to the training oi colored and native nurses at Lovedale, Cape Colony.

THE AVAR LIKE ALBANIANS. Constantinople, May 8. Seven thousand Redifs have landed Lit Salonika, and have been entrained for Albania.

RAILWAY UNION IN ARMS. London, May 8. Two railway policemen at West Hartlepool have been dismissed for refusing to cease their of the Amalgamated Railwaymen's Society. Thereupon the local railway men decided to tendec notices, and appealed to the executive of the Society to initiate" similar proceedings throughout the North-Eastern Railway system. '• •

• CRITIC OF INVALID PENSIONS. | ' London, May 8. j Mr Phil Snowden, M.P., addressing thp workers at Blackbuni, said .the contribution fixed under the Livalidity Bill was proportionately too high, and complained of the smallness of the maintenance allowed women. He' suggested tKe dropping'of the unemployment section of .the'Bill for tHis - Received slay 9, at 9.30 a.in. London, iVlay Mr Lloyd-George, interviewed regarding emigrants' aiidimmigrants, said he hadmade special provision for a mutual insurance arrangenietft with tjie dor minions. Britain would give the cloliinibns thV advantages they- were willing to. concede England: - : TRIBAL UNREST IN PERSIA. ///..'"... "Teheran-, May 8. The Kasligais tribesmen "are suspected of ambushing two Baklitiari chieftains in the vicinity of Shiran, one of whom was murdered. \)ut the fate of the. other is : unknownTHE SHAKE" MARKET. Received May. 9, at 10.30 a .- m - _ London, Alav a. Waihi, 6359 d, G6s 3d; Junction. 2Gs 3d. -><s 6d, ' / ANOTHER AIDE-DE-CAMP. Received May-9, at 8.5 a.m. _ London, May 8. • - Liext. T. E. ; Escourt,. of the Royal Scots Greys, has lieeh appointed extra aide'to Lord Islington. • A CABINET CHANGE.' " : Ottawa, Mav 8. Mr H. G. Palmtif will succeed Mr F. L. Hazard :is Preuficr of-Prince Edward Island. - ■ / ... j v 1 WORK AND WAGES;; London, /May 8. There is a recrudescence'or, taoiible in Yorkshire owing to employers Tefusing to advance wages and lessen the hours. Some 12,000 Htjddersfield weavers are ballotjng whether to cease work or accept the Board of Trade's arbitration. A : CHINA CABINET. Peking, May 8. An edict has been promulgated establishing a regular Cabinet. -

PLAYING INDIANS.

Received May 9, "at LlO p'.m. . .Ottawa, May 8. A 'boy'eigiit yeats'of age iv-aisrfatally, burned at Victoria, B.C. ' He' was playing ' Indians ;-with comrades, who wrapped paper round liim, setting him on lire, carrying out tlie torture idea. ; INVASION- OF CANADA. ■-. .. / / Ottawa, May 8. . The immigration- from Britain to Western Canada''is Exceeding all previous figures.-