HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10058, 28 January 1909, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electkic Telegraph.— Copyright, j

(Per. Press Association.)

Received January 27 ; at 10.40 p.m. Constantinople, January 27. The Porte is absolutely unruffled at, Bulgarians preparations, and denies that Turkey is or wishing to occupy territory. She was willing to accept Hve millions compensation for ail material losses, the railway, namely, four millions immediately if Bulgaria is unable to raise the total sum, and million at a future Hate.

2Tew York, January 27. The entombed rescuers at the Bos-well mine numbered 22, not 50. It is believed that they have perished. Subsequent rescue parties were unable to penetrate owing to the after damp. Quito, January iiThree Japanese, supposed to be spies in the service of Peru, or Japanese army officers, were captured near Caenca, Ecuador, mapping the country along the frontier, and were lodged in gaol at Guayaquil. Durban, January it. Dinizuiu admitted the existence of unregistered guns and the presence of rebels at" Usutu.

Xew York, January 27. Mr H T Kainev, in moving in the House of Representatives for an inquiry into tbe circumstances in connection with the purchase of the- Panama Canal, charged \lr Taft's brother and others -with being parties to the railroad proposal about to be adopted by the Panama Assembly, mvolvinc the timber land frauds. Received January 27, at 11.45 p.m. Berlin, January 2(. After Herr Von Bethmann-Hollweg, .Minister of the Interior, and Herr Dernburs Minister for the Colonies, had spoStn the Government Bill subsidising tt-e North German Lloyd's South Sea services vras referred to a committee. Most of the parties supported the subfcidv owing to British and Japanese competition. Herr Hahn (Conservative) remarked that without wishing to say a word against Britain, it -was natural that the Australians should not view German development with satisfaction, and if the German line were discontinued, the cause would certainlv emanate from Australia. Herr Hermann, of the Radical People's party, declared that Germany was in a comparatively favorable position in regard to Anstialiaj which, in the German opinion, was followinga quite erroneous and narrow-minded t>>>pojcy, aiming to exclude the competition of foreign laborers, without whom the development of Australia was impossible. That was a twofold reason for Germans seizing any opportunity for extracting what advantage they could from the situation. Herr Sender, National Liberal, supported the Bill on the ground of the influence exercised by the British freight charges on the German copra trade. London, January 21.

The jury in the Tottenham-Walthamstow tracedv desired the coroner to draw Mr Gladstone's attention to the pressing danger the country was- subjected to under the existing conditions. [Two members of the Russian revolutionary party, named Hateld and Jacobs, ran amok, shooting a policeman and a boy and firing indiscriminately upon the crowd. Both mm were subsequently shot dead by tie police.] The National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand have declared a dividend, of 7J per cent., and a bonus of a shilling per share. . The mysterious earthquake of the 2ord has been located in Chinese Turkestan. [European seismographs Indicated an unknown earthquake ec[ual to that which occurred in Sicily. It was thought at the time that the disturbance was probably submarine.]