HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10058, 28 January 1909, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Eixctiiio Telegraph.—Corviuoin.] (Per Piikss Association.) Received January 28, at 8.45 a.m. London, January 27. Henry Hess, at the Old Bailey, received four concurrent sentences of twelve months in the second division for fraud in connection with the Commonwealth Consolidated, Limited, including the mis- ■ appropriation of £1428, and falsely staling thus £IO,OOO belonging to the comwany was in the bank and another £15,000 in the hands of an unnamed firm. I lie jurv recommended leniency in. view of Hess' previous unblemished character. Madame Molba will sail for Australia by the Orontes. llomc, January 2i. Further severe earthquake shocks have visited Messina. New York, January iH. Ou landing at New York Captain Selby and Hums were carried shoulder huUi along the pier, where the women mobbed them and smothered them with kisses. [Captain Selby was captain of the huer Republic which was run down near iVev . York by the tramp Baltic. Captain Sr: bv's courage «uid coolness are lii'.'lil,. 1 praised. He personally directed th:» I'lhor--1 Graphs equally with the w°l transferring- Uio passengers and caring for the ship and crew. Immediately after the collision he reassured the passengers, remarking : "I do not think tho Kepublie will sink. She is settling down to a certain point and will stay there. All heartily eheered the captain, and acted on his kindly advice to return to their staterooms and put on warm clothes. When the Kepublie was sinking, after sending away the whole of the crew in the liloboats; Captain Selby, declining to leave, climbed' the foremast and reached the masthead light as the steamer foundered in 38 fathoms, lie was subsequently picked up much exhausted. Mr John Kunuji of Peterborough, Kngland, the Republics! •Marconi operator, in sticking to his p<>st and transmiting messages, despite the de struction of the deckhouse, where the cthergraph wa*, was responsible for the saving of many lives. The roof and. sides of the deckhouse threatened to fall at any moment, but he stuck to his instrument.] Loudon, The failure of the olive crops in I<ranee, Spain, and Italy, has caused olive oil to rise 40 per cent., and a iurther advance is probable. Vienna, January 2/. The semi-ofiieial organ Wiener Allg*nieine Xeitnng publishes a menacing article towards Servia. Berlin, January 27. The Liberian Government has apologised to Germany for the Woermann Jiner incident, and lias promised to punish the olfenclers. [The Liberian Customs gunboat Lark, commanded by a British naval reserve ollicer, liied on a steamer belonging to Uie German Woermann line off Glocester. The Lark was instructed to stop broaches of the Customs regulations and. to prevent the entrance of ships to Liber inn ports which were not open to the trade of the world. The Wocrmann's captain denied that the Lark lired shots, .and the incident was ollieially declared to be devoid of political color, but Germany could not resist the temptation to assert her power by demanding an apology and the punishment of the responsible ofiieers.] Further Paris reports state that King Mlenelik of Abyssinia is seriously ill. It is feared that his death will cause serious . trouble.

Received January 23.at 8.25 a.m. London, January 27

The Australian League team played Keighley, and each scored one goal anil two tries. Viscount Morley lias sanctioned the abolition of the Mil'it:iry Supply Department in India", thus confirming Lord Kitcheners original scheme to concentrate both the personnel and supply under the control ot the Commander-in-Chief. The Daily Mail states that Kir Gerald Strickland, Governor of Tasmania, will succeed Sir Harry Itawson as Governor oi New South Wales. The King and Queen will visit the Queen of Spain at Villagarcia at- the end of February. At the conference of the Women s Labor League at Portsmouth some of (lie speakers advocated that the State should make provision for a mother from four months before child-birth until a year afterwards: otliens supported the total prohibition of married women working for a. living. Prince Ching's son, Tanshaoyi. one of the most important men in China,, has arrived in London with a large mission to study financial methods and, conditions and other administrative methods. Sir Robert Anderson, late heart of the Metropolitan Police, condemns the t vernment's apathy towards anarchists.