HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10779, 30 May 1911, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

£By Electric Telkcp.aph—Copyrioiit.l (Per I'r.t-s Association.) -RESERVOIR COLLAPSES. ~ ,- ;- .. Home, May L>9. The parapet of the new reservoir at Lenri collapsed. Eight were drowned, and six were rescued only with great djfficultv. The p >pulace tried to lynch the Mayor, who is blamed ior faulty construction. The architect was arrested. FIGHTING OX THK BI'LOAEIAN FRONTIER. Sella. May 20. As the result of a fu-.illade on the Turkish Bulgarian trontlcr between the guards in the Ku.-tendil district, a Turkish officer and two me,, were killed and one Unitarian was wounded. LEAGUE OF EMPIRE I'A 1! A UK. . ■ • ■ London. May 2:>. 'Two liundnd thou.-and -pectat'.rs witnessed the League (,: Empire parade. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward and a number of Australian visitors win- present. RIOTS IN BARCELONA. .Madrid. May 2. In n collision heiwi-eii the Carlists and Radicals at Barcelona six were killed and many injured. VOTES FOB WOMEN". Received May :>,■>. at .'). ID a.m. London. May 2!I. Mr Lloyd-George states that the Government will devote a w.«ek of next session to a Woman's Suffrage Bill. CHAIR OF LITEEATI'RE. Received May 3D. at 10.10 a.m. -•• ■ Loudon, May 20. The Royal Society of Literature has instituted a Chair of English, and appointed Mr A. C. Benson thereto. TURKEY A DISTURBING ELEMENT. ...':. St. Petersburg, May "20. ."The .Russo-Turkish incident has closed, Russia being satisfied that the alarm caused at Cettinje by the operations of the Ottoman troops is no longer justifiable. HOME MARKETS. Received May 30, at 0.25 a.m. London, May 29. ' The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,485,000 quartersand for the Continent 3,715,000 quarters. . Atlantic shipments are 240,000 quarters, and the total shipments to Europe during'the week amounted to 1,485,000 quarters, including Argentine 180,000 quarters, Russian 665,000, Daniibian 110,000. Indian 120.000, and Australasian 80,000. ■ REVOLT OF PRISONERS.

Received May 30, at 8.5 a.m: " Rio dc-Janeiro, May 29.. President Fonscca, in a message to the Chamber of Deputies, admitted the death .of: eighteen of the marines killed bV;'«3ciipee.s from the] Island of Cobras. The commander of Cobras Island is being" prosecuted. " The message also justified-the shooting:bf several other deported men. -WILL MEAN IMPRISONMENT. : vj " •; . ' V • Paris; ,May"29.; : rA; woman named King, who_ek'ed_ out a precarious livelihood by making cigarettefLfroiii Government tobacco, tlien-hy irtfijiigiHg-tho monopoly, lias boon fined 4?62 "sterling, or in default two years' imprisonment'."