HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10066, 6 February 1909, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electkic Teusobap/c.—Coi'Viiioiit

(Per Phkss Association.)

Received February 6, at 8.15 a.m. Paris, February 5. The Revue Magazine of Paris states that the Empress of China, before dying, induced Yuanshihkai, Prince Chun and the chief eunuch to compel the Emperor to take opium and sulfocnte himself with galdleaf under a threat of strangulation, and the Emperor complied. Henco the refusal of European medical men to help. The Empress appointed the present ruler, and died next day. London, February 5.

The Portsmouth Conservatives have adopted Major-General Sir E. T. Hutlon as their candidate at the general election. Caetown, February 5.

Lord Curzon, interviewed at Capetown, said he believed that the arrangements retarding the capital were workable, judging from the Indian nrecedent at Simla, and Calcutta. He was greatly impressed by the good 1 feeling prevailing and at the absence of racialism shown at the convention.

London, February 5. Mr Herbert Gladstone states that the Government intends to compensate the victims of the Tottenham outrage. During the past three years tribunals had recommended him to expel 947 aliens and orders had been made out in 913 cases. Received February 6, at 8.30 a.m. ' London, February 5. Arrived—Mimiro, from Wellington.

Sailed—Whakarua, for Wellington. Many unemployed at Bristol asked permission to cease relief work early on Saturday to wateh the football matches, and the corporation decided to discharge all such applicants. San Francisco, February 5.

The Californian Assembly rejected a Bill prohibiting aliens from being members of corporations, also a. Bill requiring the segregation of Japanese from whites. They agreed to the Bill excluding Japanese from the schools. President Roosevelt telegraphed: "This is the most offensive Bill of all, and is clearly unconstitutional. We shall be compelled to test it." London, February 5. India is issuing a million 3£ per cent, loan at 97.

Received February 6, at 0.21 p.m. London, February 5. Wool met with a good sale at the highest rates of the series.