OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17698, 19 November 1925, Page 8

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

PARIS. November 17. On Mr Chamberlain's suggestion. Herr voii ; Ilosch, German Ambassador at Paris, has been invited to a seat in the Ambassadors’ Conference. NEW YORK, November 17. A New Orleans telegram states that fire is raging at the Mississippi River docks. \ Damage to the extent of 500,000 dollars has beeri caused. A wide area of the waterfront is threatened. The fire at the Mississippi River docks is under control. • Tl\c damage is estimated at 2,000.000 dollars. The hre spread rapidly over a fiveblock section of the waterfront. AMSTERDAM, November 17. Eighty-one pictures, the collection o.t Carfiille Castiglione, an Austrian ex-

millionaire, were sold by auction for £OO.OOO sterling. They included brandt's Portrait of a Syndic and “ Resurrection of Lazarus ” (£12,833). LONDON'. November 17. The Berlin correspondent r>f the “Daily News” states that the authorities discovered a Junker plot hatched at a secret meeting on Sunday, planning that armed patriots of East Elbe march on Berlin and forcibly dissolve the Reichstag and establish a dictatorship with a view to preventing the signature of the Pact. The authorities have doubled Dr Strcsemann's police guard, and are preparing a round-up of the plotters. . SYDNEY. November IS. The Legislative Council by 3C* votes to l.j rejected the Bill aiming to restore seniority rights to 1917 railway strikers This is the Government's fourth most- severe defeat. Mr Willis stated that the Government now would take steps to see that its police was carried out, which means that the Governor probably will be asked to appoint sufficient new councillors to ensure' a Government majority in the Anger stein was charged with murdering eight persons, his wife, his mother-in-law. a maid servant, tyro gardeners and two clerks. At the opening of the trial on July 7 last, he calmly described how he stabbed some ot his victims, and chased and killed others with a chopper. He admitted that he lived happily with his wife. SYDNEY*. November IS. Throughout the Commonwealth the position of the. Ministerialists improves with the counting of the votes. Of the four previously doubtful seats two have now gone'to the Nationalists, and one to Labour, leaving one still doubtful. Probably it will go to Labour. The Nationalists made a clean sweep of the Senate . The state of parties in that .chamber will be: Nationalists . . .24 Labour . . .12 LONDON. November 17. Hundreds of seamen and firemen who struck in South Africa have relumed to Southampton. Many are walking the streets penniless. Sixty marched to the offices of the Guardians last night and asked for a loan to enable them to return to their homes at Hull, Sunderland and elsewhere. The authorities replied that they had no power, but offered a night’s lodgings which the men rejected. Some were accommodated in the. Sailors' Home and others stayed in the streets all night.