Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2130, 26 February 1897, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[By Telegraph.] [FROM OUR OWN gORRBSroHDRNT.j Chbistohuroh, JPebraary 25. In the cricket. match Otngov. Canterbury, Otago were all oat for 68 rone, and Canterbury lost two wickets tor 88. •'■•• . London, February 24v iNews from Prolofia. states that. . dead lock haft ; occurred between tWVolfceraad and the' High Court of Justice, in Pretoria. The correspondent of The Times anticipates that the Judges will resign, aud that the Court will probably close. The Volksraad contends that its resolutions have the force of law and that the High Court has no right to question their validity, , Mr Chamberlain, in reply to a ques> 'ion in the Bouse of Commons said it was not intended to hold an Imperial conference when the Colonial Premiere when in London, bat the Government would take the opportunity to discuss matters of common Interest. Up to the present he had replies from five Premiere, and was 1 fcwaitiag the sixth before taking further action. A telegram from * '$ oscow states that* the report of the death of Steinitz, the cheess player, is untrue. He remains very ill in the hospital. Mr Curzon, replying to a question; in the House of Commons, said tbete was no indication that Ttirkey contemplated hostilities against Crete by sea. ■ The British Consul at Crete attri buted the latest Christian outbreak to a belief that massacres would occur at, Canea as a result of the presence of I ] great warships. ■• ' J

• The Christians and Moslems ill tSelito have asked the Powere to occupy the towD, declaring that three hundred soldiers would be sufficient for the purpose. The Powers are discussing Lord Salisbury's proposal to grant autonomy ' to Crete. The Constantinople correspondent: of The Tixnts says that the scheme of autonomy now seems "pro* bable.' '" Calcutta , , Feb. 24. The past week's mortality from the Bubonic plague in Bombay has largely diminished. Mr James. Renriell Prodd, one of the secretaries to Lord Cromer at Cairo* has been appointed the Qaeen's Special Enroy to King tfenelik. Mr George Hebert Murray, Clerk of the Treasury, has been appointed to succeed Sir Alfred Miiner as Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, the -latter baring accepted the Qovernorehip 4>i the Cape.