HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10067, 8 February 1909, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[liv EIKCTHU' TliTJiOllAlMl.—loi-ynioUT,' (Pick Pukks Association.) Received February 8, at O.JO "ii.ui. St. Petersburg, February 8. Kighteen death sentences were aimuumnl in St. Petersburg yesterday, iii< hi<ii||» lift-een at Irkutsk, in connection willi tlii< escaped prisoners I'roni the Ale.\aiiilr<n*l;y prison. Rerlin, February ft The rivers .Rhine, Main. I)a.nnl!i\ ;un| 0< cr are rising rapidly, and ninny Uvi i k have already been lust. The sii uiUmw ut Dresden is most precarious. The iru on the Kibe hais broken into huge ||nti> 30 centimetres (hick. Knormouu crowds from th. l countryside are assembling iti (lie citv to watch the ice crashing into the The scaffolding of the nearly completed Augustus Rridgc has already hern desi iow d. Constantinople, February 8. Owing to quarrels wiih. ihc f and Deutsche Rank the Turkish (invent nieut is in urgent need of money, ami is already discounting part ot the mntiey from Austria. New York, February N. The lowa Legislature, in order |n grapple with the qucs(ion of rare suicide, is offering a dollar to the mother ol e;nh child. London, February 7. Wales beat Scotland in (he international loot haft match by a goa} to a penult) goal. The Wallabies heal- California Cniveihitr at Berkeley by points to nil. Received February 8, at 8.30 a.m. | London, February 7. As a consequence of the newspaper ;i|i peals, the jday "An Knglishinau's lh>nn\ ami Lord Ksher, through the Daily .Mnij appealing for 11,000 Territorials to eom Dlcte the London establishment, an anony. mous donor has forwarded liH),00() lu (lie funds of the London Territorials Msoeiation. The Mayors of London ami tlifl boroughs are calling nieetinus. Over 2000 large tinns are granting the Territorials three weeks' holidays to encourage enlistGirton College is appealing lor JUfjQ.OOO to pay the building oelif and to endow scholarships. Constantinople, February 8. The Porte has resolved to accept Itussia's proposal of the principle of submitting counter-proposals at the Ralkau Conference, which is viewed very unfavorably in Kussia.