HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10062, 2 February 1909, Page 3

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

n*""- ~ [BT EtWTRIC TtXEQBAPH.-rotTRIOHT.-. (Pxb Pbess Association.) February 2, at 8.15 a.m. R** 1 London, February 1. The manner and five directors <>f the inak of Glasgow, which snsM Wt in Vovember. 1906. have been "ted "i charges of embezzlement and *" ; in .r fake balance-sheets. tt anonvmoM play, "An Irishman . Home'' produced at Wyndham'. Theatre, AaKn•• «ith England's unpreparednet* for r has caused a tremendous furore. All have been booked till, the end f March. Arrangements art- being made ,I its production in another London theatre, alio by several touring comLocal Government Board doctors, ,fter special investigation, report that Lh canned meat* are to some eient contaminated by tinplate. there -- not much probability or serious risk of Paris, February 1. - Le Matin savs that M. Cruppi, the Trench Postmaster-General, will introduce \ BUI providing for the compulsory matalHti.in of "ethergraphs on all mail •teamers of certain tonnage. sW Pekin, February 1. \ ftV-et oi flower boats at Canton has burnt. One hundred and seventy charr«! bodies have been recovered, but mlll v natives are still missing, and it :s believed that fully 200 perished. London, February 1. The Sultan of Obbia severely defeated the Somali midlah who lately necessitated the increase of British forces. The Smith London Railway from Victoria station to London Bridge has been sarvssfullv el-ectriSed by Dawson's singlephase alternating overhead system.