Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2139, 30 March 1897, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

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[Bi Telegraph.]

Syndky, March 29

A military expert has worked out Butler's career 1 as contained in th. account he gave in the American papprs. fie bljows that according to Butler's own statement he must have completed seventeen years of military and naval training by the time, he -.74.. twenty-two years of age. MoreovT. Boldiers in (he British Army are not honourably discharged sfter only five years' service, and then allowed to sßlist in another regiment and be promoted to be Pioneer Sergeant with such terrible haste. He points out that the 92nd Highlanders did not serve in Egypt, and therefore Butlar's alleged presence with them at the Battle of Telellcebir is a pure invention. The sth Drasoon Guards have not been in the field since the Crimean War, aad Butler's yarn about being sent to York to join them when they had already left for Soudan must be a concoction. From b close piecing of Butler's story, the expert is almost certain that Butler never saw tbe inside of barrack room or hud a rod coat on bis back. London, March 26. In the House of Commons the lCduoation Bill was reod a third time by a majority of two hundred. tt'ever is very prevalent among the troops which took part iv the operations in the Niger country, and there are seven hundred . cases on board the British warships lying off Benin. .Mr Richards, the City surveyor of Sydney, who is visiting England, has induced the Lincoln City Council to order £3000 worth of New South Wales black butt blocks for wood paving purposes instead of Western Amtraiia karri blocks as intended, He has been invited to advise the Edinburgh City Council as to the merits of New South Wales and Western Australia hard woods. The British Museum haa granted to Mr Bayard the manuscript of the log of the pilgrim ship Mayflower for transit to America. Calcutta, March 26. A strong police and military force is compelling the Moslems in Bombay to submit to the order for tbe segregation of the plague atricken. Pari*, March 26. Ihe Figaro states that Admiral Besurd intends to ask the Chamber of Deputies (0 vote eight hundred million

francs for the purpose of strengthening the navy by the addition of forty-five large warships and a hnndred and seventy five torpedo boats to ba constructed within the next eight years.

Lord Salisbury ha. .an hour's interview with M. Hanotaux and then proceeded to Nice ' for the Deuofit of his health.

in the Oha'mb-r. of Depu .i<*f, M, Le Bon stated thu as a result 0 f tbo recent French .xpedition to Ontral Africa, thf French Soudau had been linked with Dahomey.

Otpawa, March 26

Tbe new tariff introducd by Mr Laurier, the Premier, givea Grpnt Britain the preference.