Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2133, 9 March 1897, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[from oor OWN OORRBSPONDKNT.J ' A dblaidb, March 8. • Messrs Holder and Macpherson and Sir B. O'Loughlio are now included in the ten successful ederal candidate?, Messrs Solomon ana" Home being thrown oat. The returns are still incomplete. London, March 7. This ship Dei wenr,* of "Devitt | and Moore's line, bound from liqhdon tp Sydney, tjollided with 1 the steamer Mile off Start Point. The; iM-Weht's* Jbovj was carried and. the fore dompartment filled. She was picked uji By the Rimutaka and towed to Plymouth Before the House of Commons Committee Mr Rhodes stated that he sold a number of shares in the British. jSputh African Chartered. ..Cg;, lo enable; bun to finance the; first JVlatabele war [and provide d694:Qojti> wards of a, trans line when the public refused.t^.flsnßt-._; j He also paid £85,000 flues imposed on the raiders. ..Mr.Chapttberlain examined Mr Rhode?, his questions being (JiMcted to aseert-vining information showing that it was impossible thai the present strained between the Rand, CapeTColony.'and the, Transvaal Governments could continue. A.THBNS, March 7.** i - ; hundred British, French lanii Russian marines have landed at He]im _ to relieve nine . thousand Mussulmeb ai Candano. ]n the event of Sir ' Alfr sc Bilioth, the British Consul nt Qreti failing to indoeei the Cretan's W rt*lj_aß( the besieged, four fresh classes of tht Greek _Resjsrses~ have ; been sun mooed Colonel Vassos has'•' obtained t'hre< months'provisions. - v.. i : '"'' Rome,' March 7.. The Marquis' Rudini, the Pre_aier,(hat

IBsn?.d a rrmii'fsto to tho cleetor* in which he expresses the opinion that the concert of tin Powers alone prevents tho ..otbrpak of a drpadtul war.