LATE CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10764, 12 May 1911, Page 4

LATE CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press/Association.) FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. Received May 12, v at I.3ap.in. " - York, May 11. ; . .-By. an explosion" at the Boston mine at Scranton (Pennsylvania), five men were killed,". • ; . PORK FROM CHINA. U..\ . .;;liondon, May 11. steamer .lias, .arrived' at Livcrniiol •with, .16,000. carcases of Chinese |><, r l--72,000 cases of .frozen/god's", 10,000 of lard,, and. iOOjJ. 'cases of eggs. "WOOL SALES. ~ ~;;j London, May 11. At the .wool ,siles.. there is spirited bidding, and there is strong competition, prices being, firm. SHARES. :V " ' ' • London, May 11. Waihi Junction, buyers 27v sellers 295. 7 ' Silver, 24§d. BRITISH POLITICS. London, May 11. Mr Balfour addressing the Primrose League at the Albert Hall, heartily sup. ported Lord Lansdowne's reforms, which, hfe saM, had gone as far as it was right.or possible to go in the direction" of cfiaiige <6f the House of Lords' constitution. He warned the meeting of the folly 0f..50 changing the House rof Lords that it would;.be,overshadowed 'by the House of Commons. Berlin, May 11. The quarrel was due to Gafl'ron lendutig 25,000 marks to Richthofun all( j "signing for 40,000, ; . : CATHOLIC LEADER MISSING. ■ Received May 12, .0.50 p.m. ..." , Paris, May ]]. Ferdinand. Diirrast,- a woll-known militant Catholic leader, has mysterf. ously disappeared. His. clothes found o'n tlie banks of the Seine. r fi ie • theory of suicide is rejected. TREMENDOUS THUNDERSTORMS 1 IN GERMANY. .Berlin. May 11. Tremendons thunderstorms lunko in the west and south of Germany, a!tt j many deaths from lightning , lri , r( . ! JXll U'd. .. J, , ■ . A MEAN MILLIONAIRE. Berlin, May 11, The Rnvariati Rovenm- Department is suing tlie heirs of the late Ritt w Vonklcom, a millionaire memlx-p of tl le Uppilr Heuse, for one hundred eighty thousand sterling, on thf> gromi that for twenty years he valued ;property at from two to four million marks, whoreas it was worfli rcallv fr.rtv million. . .. THE CAMORRIST THIALR. Rome, May 11. FniUior violent scenes have nrciirred between Ablmtemaggio and F.n inme a ( : Vitei'lii). The latter eii'sed and Wasphemod horribly until < arhineers forcibl.v removed hiin. NO CONFIDENCE IN li U.SSI.W St. Petersburg, May li, ? . The. Duma, by 202.t0 82, passed tlie -. Oetobrists' . resolution condemning .11. jStolypin's use of his prerogative in connection with the zemstvos n{ the ■ Western provinces. SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION. London, May 11. The Scottish Agricultural CViiiitnis. sion's report on Australia is full of a description of the agricultural and pastoral conditions. The preface insislj that everywhere there is an unsatisfied demand for manual laborers. A LEAGUE AGAINST THE TUDKS, Rome, May 11. Mr Martin Donohoe, the Chronicle's ■ special correspondent at Rome, aiwij H tliat R.icciotti Garibaldi has already on- Bj . listed 10,000 volunteers, inohiding many H Englishmen, to fight for Albania agl/itsi S the Turks. J . JETe alleges that a rare o! JH popidar enthusiasm is sweeping Italv.