HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10065, 5 February 1909, Page 1

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electric' Telegraph.—Copyright, j, (Per Press Association.) Received February 4, at 9.50 p.m. London, February 4. The Australian League match against England was played at Glasgow, when 30C0 were present, and ended in a drawn game. The ground was heavy. England scored a goal from a "try and dropped a goal in .the first half to the League's nil. The Australians got 17 points in the second spell by fine dribbling rushes. Sir J. U. Barnes has been raised to the ' peerage upon his resignation from the Divorce- Court Division, owing to illhealth. Sir J. 0. Bigham. succeeds to the presidency, and Mr Andrew Hamilton becomes a. judge of the King's Bench. Admiral Sir William Henry May succeeds Admiral Bridgeman in command of the Home Fleet. At Mr Cdghlan's instance the International Cold Storage Association has agreed that Australia, New Zealand. Canada, and South Africa should each have one representative on the permanent committeo.

Received' February 4, at 9.55 p.m. London, February 4. The Chronicle admits that sharp differences in the Cabinet have developed at recent meetings anent the new construction scheme and' the naval estimates. The Admiralty propose an immediate millions additional, increasing to five and six millions in succeeding years, but Mr Lloyd-Ueorge, Lord Morley, and Mr Winston Churchill arc opposing the scheme, while Messrs M'Kenna and MacXamara, though previously rigid economists, are strongly supporting it. There arc rumors of possible resignations.

The extraordinary vogue of the play "The Englishman's Home" is increasing. The author is Major Du Maurier, son of the Punch artist. All the newspapers are publishing special articles and interviews daily, and statesmen are utilising them for the purpose of rousing the country to the necessity of home defence. Lord Esher estimates the deficiency in the territorials at 16,000. The War Office have removed the King's Colonials from the jurisdiction of the London County Territorial Association, and it becomes a. special Imperial unit, managed by a colonial committee. Received February 5, at 1.6 a.m.

Berlin, February 4.

The German Government have reserved the point regarding M. Isvolsky's proposal, desiring to know the feeling in Turkey, where serious misgivings arc increasing. Many recall the proposal made after the re-establishnieut of the Constitution whereby a remission of the war indemnity was offered in exchange for the opening of the Dardanelles to Russian warships, and the fact that Britain supported the proposal at Sofia, without consulting Turkey, produced a very bad effect in Turkey.