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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10059, 29 January 1909, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[Br Elkctkic Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Pun I'iiess Association.) Received January 29, at 8.5 a.m. Paris, January 28.

■Mario'Gilbert, a farmer's wife, was sentenced to penal servitude for life at the Oher Assizes, France, for poisoning her mother-in-law and cousin and attempting to murder four others. The motive of the crime was that the murderess might inherit the victims' savings and property. San Francisco, January 28. Upon Governor Gillett's appeal the proposed anti-Japanese legislation has been postponed with a view to its modification. Both sides of the House of Representatives requested the recaU of the Japanese Consul-General from San Francisco for asking Governor Gillett to pro vent the passing of anti-Japaiieso measures.

St. Petersburg, January 28. Six large bombs were, found in the Technical Institute at Tomsk. Home, January .28. . Crowds .'paraded . the., streets ,in Dolina, nuova",',Calabria, shouting,' "We,want"shelter!" The'troops charged the'rioters, killing or injuring several of Micm, Received January 29, at 8.10 a.m. New York, Jami;-y 28. Including the persons atliliated by family ties to members whether they belong to the organisation or not the census gives the Roman Catholic Church of the United States a- total' of 22,474,440 members. This total includes the Philippines and other islands under the American (lag. It gives 14,235,451 in the United States proper. The New York correspondent of the Times says these statistics are useless for purposes of comparison, inasmuch as other churches enumerate their actual members.

Received January 29, at 8.15 a.m. Wan' Francisco, January 28.

Governor Uillett, in a special message, warns the Californian Legislature against any anti-Japanese legislation. Extraordinary waves on the coast of California- and British Columbia support the theory that the seat of the mysterious earthquake is the Pacific Ocean. Peking, January 28. The infant Emperor of China is reported to be suffering from conlliteut smallpox. London, January 28. The announcement made in Madrid that King Edward and' Queen Alexandra are visiting Spain is officially contradicted in London.

Paris, January 28. Obituary—Ooquelin, the elder, the great French actor. [Bcroit Constant Goijuciin (Coqiielm Aim?) was born at Boulogne in 1841, and was brought up as & baker, lie made his debut at the Theatre Francais in 1860, and since that time his career has boon one long series of successful roles. Coqttolin, who has appeared often in London, where he scored each time a triumph, has assisted' in making the reputations of several of the leading French dramatists and poets.] Vienna, January 28.

11l- Wekorle, Prime Minister for Hungary, speaking at the Lower House at Budapest, declared that the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina took place, sooner than was at first intended owing to the serious spread of a great Servian conspiracy. The leaders of the plot d they still 1 persisted could now be prosecuted for high treason. Received January 29, at 8.30 a.m. London, January 28. The Tariff Commissioners' report on the on-ineering industry states tint 77 linns have replied that the tariff had not affected .foreign competition in the 1 lonic market in 500 products. The foreign tariff, especially in France, Germany, Ununited States, and Central Kurope had seriously interfered with exports in many branches of engineering, but where colonial preference operated upon engineer - in" products it had been ol great bencht. The Marquis of Londonderry, m Hie course of a speech at Belfast, warned the Conservative Unionists that if extremists placed their fiscal views in the forefront, overlooking the dangers of Homo Rule, the result next election would lie serious to the party and full of danger to Ireland. The Colonial Cilice denies the appointment of Sir Gerald Strickland to succeed Sir JI. 11. Hawson as Governor of \ew South Wales.

Received: January 29, at 8.40 a.m. London, January 28. Mr John Sinclair, Secretary for *mllaud, has been raised to the peerage witli ii. view to securing the presence in the House of Lords of a Cabinet Minister responsible for Scottish business, there is great surprise at this action. Bishop Reunion only deprived the Rev. Smyth Pigott, and did' not unfrock linn. Mr Joshiah Vavaseur, one of the directors of Armstrong-Whitworth and Co., out of the estate of £311,742, bequeathed to charities with a residence for the same purpose- £150,000. A. -<n-cat> funeral was accorded the policxma.n = Tvler, killed bv the Russian revolutionaries at Tottenham, the procession including 5000 policemen. Jacob, one ol the Russians, was buried secretly m a disused comer of Walthamstow cemetery m order that an anarchist demonstration miclvt bo avoided. Received January 29, at 9 a.m. London, January 28.. The Canadian issue is in the bands oV the underwriters, the (imitation being half per cent to par.