HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12255, 4 June 1914, Page 4

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Eleotuio Telegraph—CorynioHT.] (Per Press Association.) INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT. Capetown, June 3. The Income Tax Bill provides that, shipping companies carrying on business in the Union shall be assessed 1 on £5 in everv £IOO payable to the cornpan v, whether payable inside or outside" the Union, with respect to passengers, live stock, mails, and goods shipped in the Union. A DASTARDLY ACT. New York,- June 2. Five sticks of burning dynamite were found under the offices of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, where the secretary, Mr Houston, worked. The men who found the fuses extinguished them. A discharged employee is suspected. ' HEAVY COMPENSATION. Peking, June 3. The Government paid Norway 20,000 taels compensation in connection with the murder of Froyland. a Norwegian missionary. [On March 11 it was cabled that brigands sacked Lohokou. They murdered Froyland, a Norwegian missionary, and 'seriously wounded another missionary.}

MEMBER RESIGNS. London, June 3The Hon. J. Martin resigns St. Paneras and will recontest the seat as an Independent Liberal-Labor candidate. HUGE POSTBAG. London, June 3. The King's Birthday postbag included 50,000 letters of congratulations from English elementary schools. BIRTHDAY HONORS POSTPONED. London, June 3. Publication of the Birthday lienors list is postponed. "TO HELL AVITH THE ARMY." London, Jime 2. Mr Loudon, Nationalist M.P. for Limerick, in the course of" a recent speech, said he had heard about the arniv not doing its duty. "To hell with the army; let.it stand aside. The volunteers would teach the gentlemen of Ulster a lesson."

SHIPPING COMPANIES CONFERENCE. London. June 3. It is understood the conference between the British find German shipping companies "has been postponed, though there have been: .110 negotiations to that end.