CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11400, 18 April 1899, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

BMTISM AMD FOKKIGN.

Pross Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. KEEPING LIQUOR OUT OF AFRICA. LONDON, April 16. Mr Chamberlain informed a depul.'iUon that it was intiMided to impose v prohibitive turift1 upon the importation-of liquor into British territories in Africa. ELEVEN BAYS WITHOUT FOOD. A collier named Leyly was rescued from a Hooded mine in Shropshire, after being 11 days without food. MURDERS IN IRELAND. A farmer named Kcchane and his son were found murdered on a highway at Skibbercen, County Cork. SIR HENRY IRVING. Sir Henry Irvmg was accorded an ovation upon making his reappearance at the Lyceum Theatre after his recent illness. The house was crowded with a brilliant assemblage. Crowds of people waited on tho pavement in front of the theatre for 11 hours before the house was opened. OBITUARY. April 17. (Received April IS, at 0.55 a.m.) Frances, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough. INSULTING A GOVERNOR, PARIS, April 16. M. Max Regis, who was recently sentenced in connection with the anti-Semitic riots at Algiers, has now been sentenced to foui months' imprisonment for insulting the Governor-general of Algeria. COQUETTING WITH ITALY. ROME, April 16. The King and Queen of Italy reviewed the French and Italian squadrons at Gagliari, on the south coast of Sardinia. Their Majesties lunched aboard the French flagship. The British Channel squadron, now cruising in the Mediterranean, will visit Cagliari to-morrow. ' NEWFO.UNDLLND AFFAIRS. ST. JOHN'S, April 16. ';In November last Mi Alfred Morine, Receiver-general of Newfoundland, resigned at the request of Sir Herbert Murray, then Governor, because he had acted as legal adviser to Mr R. G Reid, the Montreal contractor, in connection with the latter's contract with the Government for the transfer of the colony's railways and telegraphs. ■■ Lieutenant-colonel Sir H. E. M'Callum, the present Governor, has reinstated Mr Morine, and .protested against his predecessor's innuendoes against Mr Reid and others associated with the hitter's contract.