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CABLEGRAMS.

BBITISH AND FOREIGN.

* LONDON, August 10. < The Times estimates the condition of - £he British wheat crop at 96.66, as com-

- pared with the average for the last 10 .. years of 82£.

The British imports for July increased ■ by £3.547,000, the exports increased by '■ £1.791,000, and the re-exports by £1,063.000 as compared with July last ; year. i i The Royal Commission on Whisky rel ' ports that the evidence had failed to

establish any particular variety of whisky ;• as being specially deleterious. Neither „, the medical nor the hospital nor the dis- > tillery evidence showed that pot-still r spirit wa.« nacessai-ily more wholesome f'than that from a patent still.

r Captain Davis,' of tlve Nimrod, is satis- ■_ fied, from hi* visit and the soundings t made by him at each charted position. f ~ c l the non-existence of the Emerald, ; * 2Cimrod, and Dougherty Islands. He ' found a solitary inhabitant on the Maci quarie Island named M'Kibbon. -nho is collecting seal and penguin oil for his former partv'* next visit. M'Kibbon's

only companions are two dogs. Captain j- Davis is now Homeward bound from f filonte Video.

; • August 11. Owing to the expansion of the rails ! - by the sun's heat an express train -was : _. derailed n.ear Staleybridge. Two persons I were killed and 10 injured. i A cleaner discovered a oa^hboi cont. taining £68,0G0 wotUi of bank notes in a railway carriage at the Benevento j ? Station (Italy). There is so far no trace -of ownership. The carriage had been '. lately used in the earthquake-ravaged 'district, and it is surmised that the notes

- Were the tpoil of thieves. i The Times publishes a special article ' „ covering three columns and a-half revjewf Ing the policy of Baron Aerenthal. the ! I 'Auetro-Hun^uiy Minister of Foreign = » Aflairs, and the Emperor Joseph's &ucf cess in counteracting thss effects of Minis- J | terial mismanagement. f Z A captive balloon iis being u=od by the f Spaniards at Melilla, and is proving exf- oeedingly useful j

t August 16. |. On Monday a motor .van at Filshead

(Wiltshire) dashed into a party of London Territorials whe were returning to the Roplestone camp from the army manoeuvres. Seventeen men were injured, five seriously.

MacWhirter, Celland. and Stafford, directors of the Mutual Bank of Glasgow, were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment for falsifying (he bank's 1905 balance sheet. Wilson, who was also found guilty of embezzlement, wps sentenced to 18 months.

The Navy League is being reorganised to facilitate the formation of branches on democratic lines, with a nominal subscription The league, instead of being a limited liability company, becomes an unregistered society like the National Service League.

August 13.

The executive of the Franco-British Exhibition has relieved the guarantors of all liability, and ha*> handed to Sir Edward Grey £10,000, the balance of the profits, for distribution among6t British and French charities.

A priceless collection of Japanese works of art, such as was never before seen in England and very seldom in Japan, is included in the Anglo-Japaneee Exhibition.

August 14

The Prince of Wales will open the South African Union Parliament. The Princess of Wales will possibly accompany him.

August 15.

Mr H. Gladstone (Home Secretary) sees no reason to interfere with the sentence of death passed upon Dhingra for the murder of Sir W. W\ Hie. The execution is fixed foT Tuesday.

August 16.

A fierce fire ra^ed in the Lueania's steerage quarters, saloon, and hold, for 15 hours at Liverpool, and was not extinguished until the vessel was partially submerged.

She is almost completely gutted from the funnels forward.

An alarm of fire amongst children at a cinematograph show at SoutLsea caused a flampede One child was killed and eight were injured

NAPLES. August 10.

f-evera notorious bulk forgers have been arrested here. £30.090 in forged Brazilian notes was seized. NEW YORK. August 13. The United States has announced that

its treaty "with Holland will terminate in August nest year, and its commercial agreements x with France will lapse in November next.

OTTAWA. August 11

The CanaHian Department of. Agriculture estimates that at the end of July the wheat yield for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta was 157,564,000 bushels, as compared with 110,524,000 at the end of July, 1908.

August 13,

The Canadian Pacific railway dock men at Fort William went on strike. A riot followed, in which nine men were injured, three of them mcrtally.

The local Militia was reinforced by troops from Winnipeg.

CAPETOWN, August 10.

Concerts are being held here in aid of the . sufferers by the wreck of the Maori.

.August 11

Glowing accounts have reached Bulawayo concerning a banket formation discovered in the AbeTcorn district in Rhodesia. It resembles the formation in the Band, and extends foT six miles.

PEKING, August 10.

China "has withdrawn her objections to the reconstruction of , the Antung-Mukden railway. . '«•

August 15.-

The thermometer registered 115deg in the shade in this city. There were many deaths. A similar experience is reported from Tientsin.

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 26

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Tapeke kupu
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CABLEGRAMS. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 26

CABLEGRAMS. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 26

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