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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10782, 2 June 1911, Page 4

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[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) ENTERTAINING THE COLONIALS. Received June 1, at 11.5 p.m. London, June 1Sir Joseph "Ward and Sir W. liall--1 Jones were the guests of the Canada Club at a dinner. OBITUARY. London. June 1. Obituary—Felix William Spiers, of Spiers and Pond's, the well-known caterers. THE COPYRIGHT BILL. Received June 2, at 9.55 a.in. | London, June 1. ] At Sir J. A. Simon's instance the Grand Committee has embodied in the Copyright Bill a new principle whereby i copyright will revert to the author's representatives twenty years after the author's death. THE CORONATION. CONTINGENT London, June 1. The New Zealand Coronation Contingent has arrived, all well. NO MONARCHY FOR PORTUGAL. London, June 1. The Times' Lisbon, correspondent reports that, in consequence. of the active measures of the Spanish Government, the anti-republican movement organised in Galicia has practically collapsed. The funds' w&rfe. supplied b.y monarchists and sympathisers in. Brazil and- Portugal. The conspirators are now returning to Portugal. UNION DAY IN £OUTH AFRICA. Capetown, "Juhe' 1. Union Day was observed as a public holiday.- The festival is in' progress at Pretoria, including a procession of allegorical triumph al.tvars.

A THOUGHTFUL POPE.. . ' London, June 1. Iji order that Catholics Enlpire may be able to participate fully in the Coronation, the Pope has revoked thp abstinence for Friday, the 23rd.\ A POPULAR INSTITUTION. '-London, June. 1. . A twelve days' lightning canvass iit Swansea succeeded in collecting £12,000 for the local Young Men's Christian Association.

DECLARATION OF LONDON. . London,' Juno I.' The Conference was practically unanimous in favor of the Declaration of London. THE NEW WARSHIPS. . London, Jjine. 1,. In the Hofuse 'of "Commons Mr M'Kenna announced that the following ships would be launched: The George V., in October; the Centurion, in Nothe Ajax, in December; the Audacious, in January-; the Queen Mary, in February. THE OSBORNE BILL. Received June 2, at 11.20 p.m. London, June'.l. Considerable discussion has arisen through the fact that'under'the Osborne Bill, the Registrar-General of Friendly Societies and not • the Law Court has to decide whether a trade union may bo within the scope of the National Insurance scheme.

CENSUS IN SCOTLAND. London, June 1. The census shows the population of Scotland to be 4,759,445, Glasgow 784,455, and Edinburgh 320,315. THE TROUBLES OF TONGA. . London,. June 1.. Mr Harcourt, in the House' of Commons, declined to answer relating to matters it' Tonga', 'the subject Of actions before the High Commissioner of the Western. Pacific's Court. IN MEMOREAM. : »• "' Paris,'-Jtiiie 1. The Council-General of Algiers, as a. memorial to General Berteaux, offers £IO,OOO to tie" aeroplane covering a hon-s£op flight of 500 kilometres, carrying a ton of war material. KAISER 'AND CZAR. St. Petersburg, June 1. The Kaiser will meet the Czar at the Finnish Skerries in June. REBELLION IN TURKEY. Constantinople, June 1. The rebels captured Abha, the capital of Assyr. CARELESS SPORTSMEN. London, June 1. Five Welshmen returning from the Derby were asleep in the same room in a small London hotel. One hung liis coat on the gas tap supposing it to be a hook. Tlicy narrowly escaped suffocation. They were carried to the hospital and recovered.