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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 January 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

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Received ibis day at!) 2!) a.m. t Bank Embezzlement. ! New You a, January 17. Alvord, the cashier of (lie First National Bank of New York, who admitted embezzlement from that institution, was sentenced to thirteen years. Ballooning. Berlin, January 17. Military balloonists crossed from Berlin to Sweden. Spanish Deserters. M.uniin, January 17. Sixteen thousand Spanish deserters during the war with America have been pardoned on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Asturias. Diphtheria. Roan:, January 17. A quantity of anti-dipthcria serum at the Milan Institute became contaminated during its preparation and it produced several deaths from lockjaw. Three hundred tubes wore immediately withdrawn from the doctors. A Bishop’s Funeral. London, January 17. Temple conducted Creighton’s service at (ho interment at St. Paul’s. He is the first Bishop directly buried there. Commercial Conflict of the Twentieth Century. Lord Rosebery at a meeting of the Wolverhampton Chamber of Commerce, discussed the question of the commercial contests of the 20th Century. Our commercial classes, he said, required educating scientifically from top to bottom in order that they may fairly compote with the commercial classes of Germany, Japan and America. He urged (hat every chamber should appoint travelling trade scholarships. The Stock Exchange Gamble. London, January 17. Tire reconstruction scheme of the London Globe Finance proposes the capital at two million, in pound shares credited with fifteen shillings paid up with a further shilling shares payable on allotment. Shareholders are offered the new shares for each of the old ones at present hold by them. Obituary. London, January 17. Samuel Lewis, a money-lender. Ho bequeathed his widow one million absolutely, and a discretionary life interest in three millions more, the most of which will ultimately be devoted to charities, including £IOO,OOO to found homes for the London poor. Light from Mars. Received this day, at !) 19 a.m. New York, January 17. The Lowell Observatory, near Boston, in December last observed a shaft of light, which projected from Mars, lasting for seventy minutes. Irish Election. London, January 17. Despite William O'Brien and the Leagues virulent campmign, several loyalists were re-elected to the Dublin Municipality. John Clancy, an extreme anti-British candidate, was rejected. New Foundland and France. New Foundland holds a special session to renew the modus vivcndi with France. Premiers’ Conference. Chamberlain lias invited a Premiers’ Conference at London.