CABLEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13137, 22 November 1904, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE INDP.ALEMA'S CARGO. LONDON, November 20. (Received Nov. 21, at 8.45 a.m.) All the Indralema-'s cargo iit No. 1 hold and half the cargo 'tween-deeks is damaged. THE RED CROSS ORGANISATION. November 21. (Received Nov. 22, at 0.58 a.m.) Lord Kautsford, in a 'later letter to The Tunes, appeals for funds fb extend and perfect the Red 1 Cross organisation. BEQUEST BY MB KRUGER. , AMSTERDAM, November 20. (Received Nov. 21, at 8.43 a.m.) The late President Ivniger bequeathed £25,000 to the religious societies of Holland. A NEW-. AMBASSADOR. NEW YORK, November 21. (Received Nov. 22, at 8,58 a.m.) The Sun reports that Mr Whitclaw Rcid, editor of the New York Tribune, succeeds Mr Choate as American Ambassador in London. / ALLEGED ELECTION FRAUDS. .OTTAWA, November 21. (Received Nov. 21, at 11.52 p.m.) It is alleged that several Liberal candidates at the Co-nadiait elections conspired to employ false ballot boxes. The Government is inquiring into the charges. A FATAL EXPLOSION. VICTORIA (8.C.), November 20. (Received Nov. 21, At 8.43 a.m.) A gas explosion killed l 13 colliers at Minissey. INTERCOLONIAL. * Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CHEAP TELEPHONE SYSTEM, MELBOURNE, November 21, (Received Nov. 21, at midnight.) Tito Federal Postmaster-general is adopting a cheap system of country telephones by utilising the fencing and trees. PROFITS ON SILVER COINAGE. (Received Nov. 22, at 1.5 a.m.) After years of negotiating, the Imperial authorities have notified that Australia is to be cred'it-ed with the profits made on the silver currency throughout the Commonwealth. GALES IN BASS STRAIT. SYDNEY, November 21. (Received Nov. 21, at 9.15 a.m.) Arriving vessels report heavy gales in Bass Strait. THE IFJRE ON THE MOUNT STEWART. (Received Nov. 21, at 9.52 p.m.) The Marino Court fo,und that the only possiblo explanation of tho fire on the ship Mount Stewart was by spontaneous combustion. It suggests that steps be taken to discover a less crude and expensive method of dealing with fire on a ship than filling her with water. OPPOSING NEW TAXATION. (Received Nov. 22, at 1.5 a.m.) Tho steamship companies propose combined action against the bill now before Parliament imposing fresh wharfage dues on transhipped cargo. They claim that this will greatly add to tho burdons which already much hamper trade.