CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13545, 19 March 1906, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. la noun for new Zealand. LONDON, March 16. (Received March 17, at 9.9 a.m.) The Hon. W. I'. Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand, has accepted 200 navvy emigrants, and is willing to give 1000 domestic servants reduced rates of passage, regardless of their capital qualification. A MEMBER RESIGNS, March 18. (Received March 19, at 0.2 a.m.) Mr Henry Rroadhurst, member for Leicester, has resigned his seat in the House of Commons owing to a recurrence of his former illness. A PLAGUE CASE. ROME, March 17. (Received March 18. at 4.45 p.m.) The Orient liner Ortona did not receive pratique at Naples, owing to a plague patient being aboard, but the passengers were allowed to land. A PEERAGE DECLINED. OTTAWA, March 16. (Received March 17. at 9.9 a.m.) The Right Hon. Sir' Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada and a member of the Privy Council, was offered but declined a peerage. CANADA WANTS IMMIGRANTS. Canada is increasing the bonus paid to the agents who are supplying passage tickets to British emigrants from 7s to 20s per head. AN ALASKAN RAILWAY. NEW YORK, March 16. (Received March 17, at 8.23 a.m.) The proposal of the American syndicate formed to construct at its own cost a Kansk-Alaska tunnel railway in return for a strip of land along the entire railway for industrial purposes is viewed ; more favourably in St. Petersburg than formerly. The syndicate professes its readiness to find fifty-four millions sterling for the enterprise. THE FAMINE IN JAPAN. PEKING, March 16. (Received March '17, at 8.23 a.m.) The Dowager Empress of China has contributed 100,000 taels to the Japanese Famine Fund. SYDNEY LAND OFFICE SCANDALS. PIETEKMARITZBIIRG. March 18. (Received March 19, at 0.2 a.m.) W. N. Willis, who was arrested in connection with the Land Office scandals in New South Wales, is appealing to the Supreme Court, Natal, against the magistrate's decision that he has no jurisdiction under the Fugitive Offenders Act.

INTERCOLONIAL. Press Association—By Talcgraph—Copyright ST. PATRICK'S DAY. SYDNEY, March 18. (Received March 18, at 8.12 p.m.) ' Fine wcither was experienced for the St. Patrick's Day holiday. A PLAGUE CASE. (Received March 19, at 1 a.m.) A cleaner, employed in the infected area is found to be suffering from plague.