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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxii, Issue 6459, 31 December 1904, Page 3

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Received Dec. 31, 7.26 a.m

The Russian Minister of Justice. St. Petersburg. Dec. 30 Count Muvavieti's resignation as Minister of Justice has been withdrawn.

The New British Artillery.

London, Dec. 30

The muzzle velocity of the new British guns is 1,600 feet per second, and the rate of fire 25 rounds per minute.' Their range is 10,000 yard?.

The Maltreatment of German Soldiers.

Berlin, Dec. 30

The Kaiser has directed the commanders not to retain the sergeants convicted of maltreatment of soldiers after their current time of service has expired.

received Deo 31, at 8,38 a.m. Concessions to the Mullah,

London, Dec. 30

The •' Standard's " Rome correspondent states that Italy and Britain are prepared to assign the Mullah a settled sphere with grazing rights over English and Italian territories if he is willing to keep the peace The Cotton Crop in the States.

The " Daily Telegraph's " New T£oxls. correspondent says that farmers and merchants in the southern Status proposed to destroy two million bales of cotton in order to prevent a slump. ''Venty thousand pound's worth have already been burnt. Each State furnishes its quota.

Received Dec. 31, 8,55 a.na

Adventures of a Wolf.

An escaped wolf devoured a hundred shepp in Northumberland. It was chased by fox hounds round the country side for a raonth, and was eventually tilled by the Scotch express,

Earl Roberts Advocates Con-

scription,

Earl Roberts, after visiting South African battlefields, writing in the Nineteenth Ceutury, says he is more than ever convinced that the deficiencies of our reservesa were chiefly attributable to the inability of the British to shoot. He advocates universal compulsory military service,

Wireless Telegraphy in Britain.

Lord Stanley, Postmaster General, allows prepaid telegraph messages to be received at telegraph offices in United Kingdom for transmission by wireless telegraphy stations on the coast to vesse's at sea at the rate of 6^d a word, with a maximum of 63 6d.

* All Unfounded Report. Capetown, Doc 30

The report of Lord Milner's interview with Boer kadors and the proposal to publish a Dutch paper are declared to be unfounded.