CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 23

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH ASD FOREIGN. LONDON, August 17. With the approval of the War Office, the British Bed Cross Society is organising a large soheme of voluntary aid to the wounded by means of nurses and ambulance men, £s adjuncts to the Territorial forces. Fire destroyed a block of business prenases and the Albion Hall, Ingram street, Glasgow. "The damage is estimated at a quarter of a million. A Darwin Exhibition has been opened at South Kensington. It' is folly illustrative of the studies and discoveries of the great naturaiHet. Lord Kitchener will arrive at Colombo on September 13, and will sail eastward on the 15th. ' ' August 18. Lieutenant-colonel Sir Matthew Nathan, who bas been Governor of Natal since 1907, has been appointed to succeed Sir Henry B&bington Smith as Secretary to the Post Office— a position which Sir H-. Smkh has held since 1905. /-Mr Herbert Gladstone (Sore Secretary), -in nrepiy to Jlr J. Cethcart 'Wason, said he -warn- to find any' ground ior . interfering with .the sentence, of 20 years'' imprisonment imposed on Yon Veltheim -in -February, 3508;^ for. -blackmailmg Mr fioUy Joel. The recurrence, of his eye trouble has prejn«tturely stopped General Booth's proposed -motor, tour. /' A number of pit ponW belonging to the- Powell. Duffryn XSbmpany were pus in a. field at Newbridge* (Monmouth), owing to the stoppage of work, at the collieries. Two have been discovered stabbed to the heart, and five are suffering from gashes in the neck and body. 19. it is stated that the Porte is favour^ able to an -American offer to construct a railway from Angora to Van, via Sivas And Kharput, with branches to the Mcdi terranean, Diaxbekiar, and Mosul. The syndicate asks for a guarantee of 4 per cent, on the cost, and 1 per cent, for •mortisation, with tithes over six vilayets as security, also the right to /exploit the min£s and oilfields within .a zone of 20 kilometres on, each side of the line. . The scheme involves an outlay of £20,000,000. - " , Miss Talbot,.. secretary of- the Victoria .League, wiH sail for Australia and. New Zealand in. September. She will also visit' Canada. "The tour is being undertaken with, the object of extending .the league's' ** "work.* " . - v • **" . Ar~*ibQTtr "circuit in the -electric . light "-cables sjit Olginate (Lake Como, Italy) fired the isjstaUatioas is many. houses. Ten . "peosen^: were electrocuted and seriously burned. - - j The Archbishop of Canterbury will x con- j secrate Archdeacon Wright as Archbishop of Sydney at St. Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday. The Bishops of . Manchester, Soothwark; Gibraltar, and Rangoon will assist. Ex-President Castro, whose whereabouts was a mystery for some time, has now been found at Solares, in Northern Spain. In a pamphlet published by the Peace Society, Mr Andrew Carnegie suggests that the eight chief naval Powers have only to decree that the disputes of civi- , fised nations shall be settled by an international supreme court or by arbitration, and war will become a thing of the past. Placards have been posted near Dublin And in other -parts of Ireland, printed in ■large title type, with the inscription: . " Ireland honours Dhingra, ' who was proud* to lay down his life for his country." • * August 20. Lord Garell, the arbitrator, ha& granted the Great Eastern railwayman the extra rate- of overtime for which the men have been agitating for three years. He also fixes the rate of pay for J3unday l duty in certain grades. . . „ . The 'American fishing schooner Orinoco ■ capsized in a squall 20 Tnilee from Halifax, and of a arew of 17, all -of "whom bekaged to Nova Scotia^ 11 perished. George , Thompson, an American, has' been remanded at Marylebone" Court on a charge of stealing £100 from Mr William Strong, an Australian merchant, by ■learns of the confidence trick. A confederate escaped. As the result 6f a boiler explosion on jthe- destroyer Otter, at Wei-hai-wei, two people were killed and two injured. Mrs Despard, Mrs Cbbden, Mrs Sanderson, and four other members the .Women's Freedom- League have been arrested in connection with an attempt to intercept Mr Asquith outside " his official residence. Reuter reports that the announcement will shortly be made officially tliat all outstanding questions between 'China and Japan have been amicably settled. The s.s. Mauretania crossed the Atlantic ■west-tvards in 4d 14hr SBmiir, establishing $. record. In a .test case arising out of the Miners' Eight Hours Act, where the, men.- refused to work for an. extra hour- on two specific Says, the stipendiary magistrate at Ehondda held that there should be a ninefiouxs day on 60 days .annually, the relUaaning days to be of ' eight boars each. , Judgment was given for the employers. ■&a appeal has been entered. August 21. (£ number o! 6uffragette6 and their rfympatbisere caused riotous scenes out|m» St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, where

Lord Crewe was speaking. Owing to the dense crowd Lord Crewe resorted to strategy at the close to make his exit. Jewellery valued at £4jooo belonging to Mrs Moser, an American lady,- was stolen in the daytime from a room in the Gxeat Central- Hotel. August 22. Towards the estimated 1910 Budget deficit of £8,000,000, the French Treasurer ! proposes to increase the tobacco - tax, which will produce an additional million and a-half, also to sell to wine-growers a S^ate label to be affixed to each bottle of genuine wine, guaranteeing its purity. The cost of the label' will vary according to the price of the wine. T-he Porte has decided to recognise King Ferdinand's title of King of Bulgaria. General Booth has undergone a successful operation of the eye. A girls' school from Riverside were on an excursion below the weir at Offenbachan, when some .schoolboys miscbiev--ously opened the sluice. The result was that six gkis were drowned LONDON, August 23. The Coventry Ordnance Company has received larders from' the British and ether Governments for £1,000,000 worth of guns and mountings, ensuring werk throughout 1 1910 wiih 150Q "extra men. £ABIS, August 19. j Lieutenants Jeance and Colins's wireless^ telephony has proved .highly, successful "between Toulon and Port Vendres. ' COPENHAGEN, August 20. Miss Mary Westnhols, an elderly spinster, entered the Folkething , .(House of Commons) ■ and took the Speaker's seat. She then * rang his bell, and denounced the Minister of Defence and the Government as a band of unpatriotic hirelings and betrayers of Denmark's honour. MADRID, August 18. The state of siege in Catalonia has been abolished, but all constitutional guarantees remain suspended throughout Spain., August 20. Spain is sending^ two r naval divisions to MeliHa to shell the coastal villages, whence the Moors are harassing Spanish troops. * CONSTANTINOPLE. August 17. The Turkish Government Commission acquits the Armenians -of all - responsibility for the late Adana outbreak and massacres. The Commission ascribes these to the ignorance of the population. OTTAWA, August 23. The Canadian Government will discuss the question of an All-British cable service when Sir J. G. Ward reaches Ottawa. CALCUTTA, August 22. The. Vioeroy (Lord ; Minto) attended an -enthusiastic farewell banquet given in honour of Lord Kitchener at Simla. STOCKHOLM, August 1&. -The Swedish railway men have resolved: j largely against the strike. 'The resumption of work in many towns continues.