HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10876, 20 September 1911, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Pep. Preps Association.) | a Japanese si'v. Washington. September 1!'. Reports liav l b.-en received alleging iha; Commander lfirago. attached to the Japanese Legation, had been mapmaking along tlie Alaskan coast and harbors. An inquiry has been ordered. .EXPLORING THE ROCKIES. Ottawa. September 10. ! ir is lepnrted from Edmonton that j explore!.- /ir ti;e Roeky Mountains dis- j en-.ered a new peak higher than Mount i !;-i!>S'iii. Several enormous glaciers j v.. re :il.-ij found. PEULIX BAXK DEFAULTER. Berlin, September 19. Director Auberg, of the Discount Bank, has disappeared. His defalcations aic £*30,000. ] RISING IN CHINA. ... Pekin, September 19. I'lie British Consul at ChanjAu, rcpoiting ■ ojx: the ,3(Jtli 3 states .that the foreigners arc all well und unfnoTejsicd. .. • TREMENDOUS EARTHQUAKE. -- Valparaiso, September, IS). There- w ere - twenty fatalities, by the "at Regrctosy. Anea and Tasna. ' - ! • INDIAN-' NATION'AL CONFERENCE"' ReceivedSepte'ASsr 20, at 8.5 n.m. _ - ' " _ . 'J^iii3pn.' r SepJteiii|pei; Mj- Ramsay Macdonald is to accept.iijciPresidency of the Indian National Conference:''' ENGLAND'S LARGE ESTATES.

Loiidoh, September 19. , Sir Edward Strachej' lias, advised the County Councils to purchase the large Ps . lookeft fonvard to the Councils becoming -large landlords instead. oft he dukes. . -

ROUBAIX EJqiIBITION. London, September 19; An influential deputation_repre|enting the principal Centres of the British wow Chambers- and manufacturers are visiting the Itoubarc Exhibition- . ' i

MUTINY IN NORWAY-, Christiana, September 19. ° - One hundred arid fifty-five; have been sentenced to imprisonment for 24 days in connection iwith. tne mutiiiy. : ■ ; i

: •• anthrax. Iteceived September 20," .'at a.m. London, September 19. ' There have-' been -561 confirmed outbreaks of ant&ax in England in eight fected.- .... .:..i .