HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8112, 2 February 1903, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

By Electric Tklkorami.—Corvnioin ]

Per Piikss Association. (Received February 2, at 8.45 a.m. London, February 1. The- destroyers IVaxcr and SUirilsh e,,|. lided in Portsmouth. dockyard. Tin Twuier'a bows were badly damaged nml th, Starfish's slightly. Mr Reeves testified, before the Roy.il Commission inquiring into the questi< I Civil Service pensions, regarding the >,, w Zealand insurance annuities. Constantinople, February I It is believed that live. Russian turned,, boats passed tho Dardanelles. St. .Petersburg, February I.

There has been an alarming increase ~f brigandage in the Caucasus and even pin. son towns pay regular tribute to baud, ~( brigands. Attacks on stations and li.nii'. on the Sladikavkas railway are_ fiv<|iieni, and many travellers have been killed. Received February 2, at 8.45 a.m. Alliens, February I. While twelve torpedo destroyers, n il l, lights extinguished, were pursuine, H„ cruiser Pioneer in the squadron movein. iiK at Corfu, the Pioneer cut die destray.t ():•. well in two at the conning tower. Ih„ fore part sank in deep water and I lie l'i,,. noer towed the after part to Corfu. '(\v„ were drowned and thirteen are, mix in,; and probably sank .in the bow. All th- „[• ficers wero saved. New York, February 1,

Tho great electric generating nhtnt m, Niagara Falls was destroyed by lightning exploding the big transformer power Inun.', Received February 2, nt 9.7 a.m. London, February 1.

The Pretender in Morocco liiih sii»|>t-in|.'il his advance to Fez and retreated to lm old position in order to secure the ivar ~| Mulai Arapa, The Sultan of Moro.. .r,i uncle is trying to Klein tho anli-l.'hriMi;iii movement m t-lic direction of Algeria, nwiim to the Fiviich 'Minister of Foreign AllaiiV ominous warning that Frnncc will pvnint Algeria against fanaticism, and oven im.nl,: Morocco if necessary.

The Marquis of Lansdowno's and M. IMcause's policies are said to lie identical, with a view to ensuring quiet in Tangier ami tlie southern shows of the Htrails of Gibv.ili.ir, \New York, February I.

Tho German residents of Puerto A. '.il>, 11,, refused the invitation of *he captain <>l lh,> German cruiser Gazelle to celebrate Hi„ Kaiser's birthday aboard, on the ground tli.it Venezuela was suffering from Germany's unjustifiable aggression. America is agitated by the news lh.it German agents at .Santiago proposed the inimediate purcha.se of the Chilian biillt;lii|i Otpilan Pratt and the cruiser Ksmrr.iU.i, also the Chilian warships now.being I<uilt

in Europe. ISaron Sternberg, in the course of a ing interview, said the Monroe doctrine w.u understood as well in Germany n.« in Aimti. ca. Foreign Powers would strictly <>li. serve the limits i)lac<!d on their .•!<■( i«m Land-grabbing would bring disaster to t;,i. many. __^_______