LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 August 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[PER PRESS ASTOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]

A Copper Trust.

London, August 17, The Daily Mail announces that the Calumet-Hecla Companies and Amalgamated Copper Companies in America and the Rothschilds in Europe signed a billion dollar trust to control both continents.

Rhodes donation to Liberal Election Fund

Noticing Sir H, Campbell-Bannerman’s denial, Hon Cecil Rhodes promises to publish the full correspondence over his donation of .£5,000 to the Liberal election fund.

The Viper foundering Case. The Court-Martial reprimanded Lieut. Speake, who was on watch duty when the the Yiper foundered in a fog. The The Court found that he had made a miscalculation and taken insufficient precautions. Victorian Order.

Commander Scott of the Antarctic ship Discovery is created a member of the Victorian Order. Terrible Hurricane.

New York, August 17. A great hurricane in the Gulf States of America destroyed two of tho levees at New Orleans and did much damage otherwise. The city was inundated and 15 drowned. The city of Mobile is isolated,

The Steel Strike.

Every plant at M’Keespoort is closed down, while elsewhere the strikers are losing ground. 3000 employees at Joliet reconsidered their previous determination not to obey the Amalgamated Workers Association and have now agreed to obey Shaffer.s orders.

The Canadian Census. Ottawa, Aug. 18. The Canadian census show the population to be 5,338,833 persons. The province of Quebec shows an increase of 132,432 ; Ontario, 53,657 ; British Columbia, 91,827 ; Manitoba 93,958, and the North-west Territories 78,200 during the decade.