CABLE NEWS

Temuka Leader, Issue 5823, 29 May 1909, Page 1

CABLE NEWS

BRITISH & FOR LUG N

LONDON, May 25

Many entcrtaitimonts are being given to the- Berlin municipal councillors now visiting England. The King received a Berlin municipal deputation at Buckingham Palace. The estate of the late Mr Frederick Gorringc, draper, is valued at £673,627. He bequeathed £IOO,OOO to charities upon his 'widow's death. The late Mr Charles Warner's estate has been valued at £4.450. Mr * L. 11. V. Bower, an Australian engineer, has discovered near C.unrdn, Portugal, a lode containing _SO percent of oxide of uranium which is superior to pitchblende for the purpose of producing radium. A British syndicate has secured control of the Portuguese properties. The- South Wales Coalowners, controlling 40,000,000 tons annuaWy, have issued a manifesto explaining to ltiO,IKH) workmen thai "only six and a half hours' work is possible in many of the collieries, yet the workmen refuse to permit double shifts, though the Departmental Committee of the Home Otlice expressly suggested these. The ol'l'ect of the Act will reduce the earnings of day wage men l'ij- per cent. If the men will assent to dou?>;c shifts wheie practicable, and are willing to work nine hours one day per wo-k as the Act permit.-;, the owners wiVl not insist on a reduction boforc March next. LONDON, May -3fi. Krishnavarma- has accepted the return of his endowment of a Spencer Lectureship. Pending the arrival of the bulk of the exhibits of the Australian section at the Shepherd's Bush exhibition, specimens of work done by Australian ladies in London will be exhibited. A wrecked airship, used for advertising purposes, and furnished with lights, was discovered at Ihinstaiblc. It was practically a large toy. and was sent up nightly empty, and was the cause of the recent scare.

Oscar Slater, who was sentenced U> death for murdering Miss Gilchrist in a Glawow on December 21st, has U'en reprieved, owing to an element <>f uncertainty as to the testimony of identification.

The estate of the late Charles Morrison, a eitv financier and a hache.or, is valued at £10,000,001). The hulk of it goes to his brother and sister. both of -whom are unmarried. May 27.

The Standard states that Viscount Kitchener, after witnessing thedapancse manoeuvres in November, will proceed to 'Australia, then to Canada. Ho is anx'ioiis to review the wlxvln F.'iupiro military problem. Mr .Roosevelt has arrived at Nairobi.

Hindish capitalists have negotiated ;t Russian railway loan of £:V2- r ><>,<M><»A port-ion will ho used for purchasing material in Britain. CONSTANTINOPLE. May "J"). It is stated that I'M non-Moslems wcro arrested in connection with the Adana massacres. The position in Syria is becoming quieter. Yiieuui I'asha, commander at Rr/eroiim. ha-; boon brought to Constant iiiople fintrial in connection with the responsibilitv of the local outbreak. P,FdU/l\, May -J-'.. Ib'ir Keeslcr, president of the Ci>rnian Na\\v League, in a i|>eeeh de elaivd that Oermany needed more erui sers. and a seventeenth battleship was ip iiiiri'd for n-.e against anybody and everybody desiring to disturb her pcafcful development. The (lermnn Soi-ial lletnoerats rebis• to shire in the festivities in ronnee. lion with the visit of the I'.ritish I.aliour member* of the Hous<j of Commons, on the "round tliat T.iliernl members of the Reichstag are included mtiowi the tnemb'-rs of tie- reeeption eommitt'v. \T,W YORK. May '.'.">. Masked bandit- stopped the I'liioii raeifie express at Omaha and seeured seven registered b-t tor mail bag-, uhieh -ontained inu.dlio dollar-'. A fnnilade of revolvers intimated to the nasMmMors the preseiuv of the bandits. The Union-Rncific Company olb-i- a tvward <if 'Jn,IMH» dollars for tie- rob hers dead or alive. A the oeeurred at ihe uan-hons.- of the Society for the promotion niCliri ''tail Kli"H lefl:v, in ,\ort liumli.-i-land AvenUn. "i\\ .-n t \ fi %.' thoiiaud |ioiiieU worth of books wero damaged.

PKETORIA, May 26. 1 On the Stock Exchange there is the bio-rrost boom in Kafiirs since 1595 Randfontoins are higher, and in three weeks Chartereds have risen from 7/0 to 26/-. Other leading stocks have, rison, a city financier and a bachelor, rand gold output of £10,173,030 in foi:t months. ODESSA, May 26. One hundred and ninety-two Baptists have received sentences ranging from a week to two months' imprisonment at Odessa, r holding unauthorised meetings. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 27. Chcvket Pasha proposes to transfer Abdul and his people to Salonika, as he is uneasy at the presence of the ex-Sultan. HOME, May 26. The Pope handed to the Italian police three burglars, who were caught in the Vatican gardens, thereby recognising the civil power. The Italian Geographical Society confers the highest gold medal on Lieutenant Shackleton. WASHINGTON, May 2G. A wireless station 600 ft high is being built at "Washington. It will have a radius of 3t)00 mi'les.