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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10768, 17 May 1911, Page 4

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[By Ellctkic Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Pri:ss Association.) ■STHIKE IX JOHANNESBURG. H.f-ifd .May i(J. at 10..'j1) p.m. Johannesbury. May 10. A number of .strikers have resumed work, but one-third arc still striking. A full servi'i- is running. A further discovery of blasting golaline on the tram lines has been made, and tic municipality offers a reward of IS-Jllli i».r tin- eonvii'tjon of the miscreaiit"-. WHAT THE CAMBHIAX STRIKE COST. London. Mav Kb

A conference of the South Wales Coal ' •••■•Hers' Association and the Miners' Federation has agreed to the terms of a settlement in the Cambrian dispute, which will he submitted to the parties. The strike has lasted six and a-half months, and has cost two and a-quarler millions.

BANKEHS IN JOURNALISM. Berlin, May 10. Speyer and Company, Frankfort bankers, have purchased the Vossisohc Zeitung, the oldest German newspaper, for .£IOO,OOO. OIL FOR LOCOMOTIVES. Ottawa, May 16. The Canadian Pacific Railway has decided to use oil on. its engines in the Rocky Mountains, with a view to prevent disastrous forest'fires. MES TAFT'S HEALTH. ISew York, May 16. President Taft declares that his wife's condition is not serious. SIR J. G..WARD, LL.D., OXON. ... .London, May .16. Oxford will confer a doctorship on Sir J. G. Ward. : RAILWAY DISASTER. Received May 17,. at 9.20 a.m. : ' . P a Sotown, May 16. The train director,-CoWie,.".has been arrested on a charge. Of culpable homicide in connection with the JBla'auwkra'pte railway disaster on- the ,23rd of April. IN THE AIR. Received May 17, at 11.10 a.m. Berlin, May 16. As the airship Deutschland was leaving tho Dusseldorf shed AVith eight passengers a violent gust swept the airship up, and it then dropped on the roof of the hall,- wrecking it. All the passengers were rescued. LONDON. MARKETS.. London, May 16. At the wool sales there 'was keen competition, and prices are unchanged. INDEX EXPURGATORIUS. Received May 17, at 8 a.m. Rome, May 16. Gabrielle Danuuzio's books have beeu placed on tho index expurgatorius. STANDARD OIL DISSOLVED. Washington, May 16. The Court has ordered the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company within six months. The majority of tho Court interpreted the Shorman Anti-Trust Act as not applying to every restraint, but only undue restraint. STRIKE RIOT. New York, May 16. Some hundred people .were injured in a strike riot of the furniture workers at Grand Rapids; Michigan. Tho police attacked tho rioters. CANADA CENSURE MOTION. Ottawa, May 16. A motion of censure of the, Dominion Government for the scandalous system of public appointments made through political organisations was defeated by a small.majority. . ANOTHER TRUST. Washington, May 16. An investigation has been ordered into the affairs of the United States Steel Corporation. - ■