LATE CABLES

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 328, 24 January 1907, Page 5

LATE CABLES

[by electric telegraph—copyright)

THE TIMES ON AMERICAN CORRUPTION. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Received January 24, 8.22 a.m. LONDON, January 23. The Times, in a three-column article, endorses the San Francisco newspapers’ denunciation of the city officials, individually as well as collectively, and says they are a band of thieves and blackmailers. The paper declares the Labor Union and the municipal government in San Francisco are the most terribly corrupt administrations America has produced. It denounces Abraham Ruef, as the most cunning and unscrupulous boss ”in America. It asserts that these grafters ” are responsible for the delay in rebuilding the city. IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC. DISCOVERY. ■ ( London, January 23. British German scientists agree as to the enormous importance to agriculture of obtaining nitric acid from the atmosphere. Re the discovery, Professor J. J. Thomson says the extraction is only possible with cheap water power. APPALLING WHIRLPOOL. London, January 23. The Daily Chronicle states that the steamer Bella has arrived at Philadelphia. She reports sighting off San Salvador an appalling whirlpool of enormous size, which is believed to be due to an earthquake.