HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10062, 2 February 1909, Page 1

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electbjc Telegraph—CorrctiGHT.]

(Per Press Association.)

Received February 1, at 9.48 p.m. London, February 1. King Edward decorated Queen Elena with the insignia of the Red Gross in recomition of her work at Messina. ° Borne, February 1. Generals M'azza and Mazzitelli report that the survivors at Messina and Reggio cannot be induced to clear the streets, preferring to draw their rations and live in idleness, leaving the soldiers to do the work. These officers suggest that the soldiery be withdrawan in order to force the survivors to work without extravagant Calcutta, February 1. -V=hufoth Makarji, Judge of the High Court at Calcutta and a Brahmin, will be the first native member of the Indian Executive Council. London, February 1. The Rugby Union Committee resolved that the payment of three shillings a day to members of the Australian and New Zealand teams is to cover drinks at meals and other legitimate expenses, and does not amount to professionalism; nevertheless it views such payments as open to misconstruction and possible abuse. Hie Committee decided that managers pay such expenses in future. Constantinople, February 1. The Grand Vizier sent a sharp note to the Bulgarian Government, asking definitely whether or not Bulgaria intends to resume negotiations. The Turkish military experts advise tha the rectification of the frontier around Adrianople is necessary for the efficient defence of Adrianople. Durban, lebruary 1.

V crisis has occurred in the South African Convention owing to differences aboutthe selection of the capital. Mr De Wet has returned to Orangia. Received February 1, at 10.00 p.m. St. Petersburg, January 1. M Lopukhin. formerly chief of the Russian detective service, and a member of one of the oldest and most distinguished Russian families, has been arrested at St. Petersburg in connection with the revelations of Azeff, agent-provocateur Jt is allened that Lopukhin received delegates of the Revolutionary Committee m Pari* and ;>ave information regarding Azeff.' Lopukhin is also accused of appointing Bakal as director pi he Warsaw police, who afterwards jollied the revolutionaries. revealing the police secret* Seventeen others were arrested with Lopukhin. There is great excitement in St Petersburg. . . [-Recently a secret tribunal sitting ni Paris condemned to death as an agent ot the police Azeff. the chief lcrronst organiser of the Russian Revolutionary Society. Azeff is represented to have arranged most of the outrages and assassination; attempted in recent years, mending the plot on the Czar's life. It is also, alleged that Azeff arranged the assassination of Father Gapon, who led the procession to the Czar's Palace on January 22. 1905.] „ , 1 Washington, February 1. The House of Representatives added for the purposes of aeronautical experiment? half a million dollars to the army appropriations. ■ ~,-,, i 1 Berlin, February 1. The Social Democrats of Hanover made a, demonstration in favor of the extension of the Prussian suffrage. The police drew their revolvers, and wounded twenty-hve of the rioters. Received February 1, at 11 p.m. London, February 1. The Times' Pekin correspondent says since the death of the Empress Dowager .government is in the hands of a Manchu cabal is losing the element of solidity, and becoming a hotbed of party taction and intrigue: The censors are initiating wholesaleimpeaeliment against all popular wealthy official's. Berlin, February 1.

Herr Adolf Stein has published an apparently inspired life of the Kaiser, wherein he 'states that the German Foreign Otfice. and not the Kaiser, was responsible for the Kruaer telegram. Prince Holienlohe concocted this and persuaded the Kaiser to agree to suggest in reply to President Kruger's inquiry that the iransvaal must not rely on European aid. London, February 1.

The Sinn Fein writes warning the Bishops that their interference in national issues will terminate their political power if thev repeat such blunders as the disapproval of the compulsory teaching ot Irish in the National University.