HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12286, 13 July 1914, Page 4

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By (I'r.it PPFSS Association.) i{B BRITISH POLITICS. ffl .Received July \'2. at 5.5 p.m. raj London, duly 11 Eg The Daily News states that tl h m new session opens at the end of Nn IE TWENTY-FOUR. HOURS IN Till 8 ■ ■ AIR. H Berlin. July l'. 1 M . Roehm, from Johannisthai, reniniiu',| p in the air for 2-1 hours, a record, lit 11 took up-() 00 litres of benzine. §1 i ROYAL TOUR. IN SCOTLAND. | London, July 1_ g Their Majesties have concluded th i § Scottish tour, after visiting Dunhlaiu |U Slirling. and Linlithgow. | .OLDEST INHABITANT OF I ENGLAND. | London. Julv In | Mrs Rebecca Clark, aged lit), th | oldest inhabitant of England, died is | the result of a shock sustained duritc i $ thunderstorm. | UNCLAIMED AVAR MEDALS. fj London, July 10 | Although they have advertised' cxt n | sively the War Office has on hand liliv J thousand wa,r medals and 200.ii 0 | clasps. DIAMOND SMUGGLING. I Received July 11. at 5.30 p.m. { New York. July lit 3 The Governmeiiv- is losing hall i I million steering by diamond smugglin '■ being carried o»i liy secret agents < n the Continent and in England. From recoup, disclosures made in connect i nt with a jewellery Jinn's bankruptcy d r t.cciives calculate''' thai ten thoiisau 1 - sterling worth of gems is montlilv i smuggled into the T'niied Slates aci ' the Canadian frontier. : EMBEZZLER'S ADVENTURE. . Ruda Prsth. July ID. j Krniisoinsky, a railway cashier, eni- : beiizlcd. two thousand sterling and. then ) went to Canada. Unable to find work \ he decided to return to Europe :nn| \ sailed in the Empress of Ireland. U,> clung to a boat and was rescued. Rising penniless he was sent to .Europe ai the expense of the authorities. \VIh-u he returned to Hungary he was arrested .