HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10903, 21 October 1911, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Uii.- ]E£ecthic Tzlkgbaph—Coprr.icnT.] 1 (Per Puses Association.; GERMAN TRAITOR. !■ , Berlin. October 20. r"A reservist named Kohrer has been Sentenced to .six years' servitude at Xfejpzig for endeavoring to sell the Meta: fortification plan.' to French authorities. ? MINE DISASTER. New Y(irk. OctoN'r 2". -.'At Hihorniu. New .Jersey. a bla.-i; destroyed a partition between two shafts in-the iron mines of the Wharton Steel Company- and water flooded the workings.. -twelve men being drowned. The victims were mostly foreigners. Sixty in en wqre. overwhelmed. all escaping save .those unable tr> make their way Out of'the flooded gallery. .TRAM CAR GOES OYER BRIDGE. Received October 21. at 9.30 mm. - I. '.ado::. October 20. ,y.A tramcar at Mo-ley got out of control on an incline and somersaulted over ft bridpe forty feet h.ich. Five persons •Bete- killed and fourteen in tared. The conductor's legs were torn off n::d drivers' limbs were broken. - • FATE OF A MISSIONARY.

LOTn. . > Advices . from G.n: . Bc'i'h Guiana, State that the diary of- Mr Davis, an American missionary -upposed to have been poisoner! for preaching- against polygamy, show- that he <lkc-"from fever, and the ahorisririnh have been cleared of all suspicion.

CO-PARTNERSHIP IN INDUSTRIES. ' > London. October 2 '. - "Lord. - Courtney. Messrs ISurt._ FenWick, AY. H. Lover, and Benjainm Brown have issurd a pronouncement on behalf of the Labi.r Co-partnersiiip Association urging great employers and trusted Labor leaders to consider whether: co-partnership \v.largely solve industrial problems. OXFORD CENSURES ITS .MEMBER. ' ' London. October 2'). "The Oxford Magazine, recalling the circumstances of Lord Hush Cecil's election, severely censure? him for rorgetiijig that the- rnirersity are delegates, rather than representatives, and for participating in ;n:exarr.pie.l BCtnes"'of rowdyism and insolence toWrirds the Premier.

PERSIAN GRIEVANCES. ' London. October »vA' Reiiter telegram says the Persian Government has sent a r.ote to Britain .'protesting auainst the despatch i.i troops to .Siiiraz. where everything is now tranquil, and stating that the presence of trcops wmiM tend to increasePersia's difficulty in maintaining order-- .... . . ' \ CHILDREN'S FATAL DUEL. - •: - Berlin. October 20. "It bus transpired that Duetzen and von Necker both committed suicide. :.. . ; A HORRIBLE END.. ■ ■ London. October 19. "". After a struggle with a warder Miss Bingham, arrested on a charge of poisoning her brother with arsenic, jumped fronr a staircase esveral storeys high in Newcastle goal and was killed. '" • STEAMER FOUNDERED. Received October 21. at 9.30 a.m. '- ' Madrid. October 20. The-steamer Secruncio del Cerro foiiiidered in the North Sea. 23 of those aboard being drowned.