LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 January 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[by electric telegraph—copyright.]

(per press association.)

A Big Steel Concourse. ° New Yobk, January 11. j The Andrew Carnegie Company, Auicrican manufacturers, arc establishing a steel pipe and tube manufactory at Ohio a at a cost of three millions sterling. Carnegie declares that America holds the , world's steel market at its mercy. England and Her Colonies. r Ottawa, January 11. s Sir Wilfred Lauricr, the Premier, re- A sponding to an Imperial toast at a meet- < ing h;ld at Osgoode, Ontario, said although the present relations of Britain and the ' Colonies were satisfactory, nobody supposed they would last. When new problems relating to closer union rose they i would be solved on the strictest lines of Canadian nationality and British citizenship. The Beer Poisoning. London, January 11. A Boyal Commission has been appointed to report on safeguard's against arsenic in food and drink. Bostock's, the well-known Liverpool firms of sugar refiners, are claiming heavy damages from Nicholson, managing director of the Hunslet chemical works, for supplying arsenicated sulphuric acid, thereby causing the recent beer poisoning. "Weather Wragge." Wraggo, the Queensland meteorologist, is visi'ing Europe. He is greatly impressed with tho "Styrian" system of averting hailstorms by means of cannon. He believes that tho adoption of tho method would save Queensland many I'aousand a year. Bubonic Plague. A serious outbreak of plague is reported at Maritsa, in European Turkey. Bishop Creighton Dying. Bishop Creighton is dying. Trains Snowed Up. Eleven trains in the South Western Eailway System in England are now snow bound. A Desperate Wreak. The mail boat Russia, running between Oran and Algeria, was wrecked at Faraman Locks off Marsei les in a high sea which baffled all'efforts at rescue. A hundred of the crew and passengers were clinging to the bows. A fter tour days all were saved.