CABLEGRAMS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Daily Times, Volume 13793, Issue 13793, 5 January 1907, Page 9

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Association—Ey Telegraph—Copyright. A WEALTHY WESTRALTAN. LONDON, January 4. (Received Jan, 4, at 9.45..p.m.) Mr Ludwig Loeffler, a financier, who was largely interested in the Westraliau markets, lias left aii estate valued at £1,505,000, which pays a duty to the extent of £50,000. A DECISION The Board of Trade lias returned the certificate of the captain of the ship Sjieko, which the Melbourne Marine Court suspended for a year on the ground of gross misconduct, in connection with the fitranding of the ship on PhillipHand. BARONESS ISURDETT-COUTTS. The body of the late Baroness BurdettCoutts is lying in State at her lato Stratton street residence. FRAN CO-BE ITISH EXHIBITION. The Agents-general have secured a large amount of space for a combined Australian display at. tho Franco-British Exhibition, which will be held at Shepherd's Bush, near Loudon, in 1908. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. Mr Herbert Gladstone (Home Secretary) has appointed Mr Ernest Ave.s (a member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society) as a commissioner to visit Australia and New Zealand and inquire into the effect of the establishment of a Wages Board and the compulsory Arbitration Acts. THE PORTSMOUTH FIRE, The damage by the Portsmouth fire, which destroyed a large building containing the whole of the camps' equipment for tho southern command, is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling. THE LIFEBOAT FATALITY. I'lio crew of the wrecked Rydi) lifeboat drifted throughout the night,'holding on to the lifo lines. They suffered: terribTy. SALE OF MILITARY STORES. BERLIN, January 3. (Received January 4, at 8.5 a.m.) Chili has sold to a German iirm 2600 Mannlieher rifles aud cartridges for mountain (batteries for £250,000. It is supposed that they aro intended for tho Turkish Government. ATTACKED BY WOLVES. BUCHAREST, January 3. (Received Jan. 4, at 7.30 a.ni.) Wolvps on the Roumanian frontier devoured -a clergyman and his servant, who were* sleighing. Many others were attacked aud injured. PERSIA. TEHERAN, January 3. (Received Jan. 4, at 7.30 a.m!) • The Assembly at Teheran accepted the revised Constitution. EFFECT OF EARTHQUAKES. NEW YORK, January 4. (Received Jan. 4, at 9.45 p.m.) Owing to the earthquake at San Francisco having .altered the currents of the Paci% Ocean the United States Government has undertaken the work of recharting the ocean. DISTURBANCE IN ARGENTINA! BUENOS AYRES, January 3. (Received Jan. 4, at 7.30 a.m.) The police at Pergamino (Argentina), in dispersing a demonstration against municipal taxes, killed six people and wounded 17.