Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LII, Issue 2602, 30 August 1901, Page 2

Telegraphic News

(FROM OTJB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.)

[Br Telegbaph].

Wellington, Aug. 29

Several seamen of H.M.S. Archer were coming ashore in a ship's boat at seven o'clock this morning, so take off last night's liberty men. A stiff northerly wind was blowing, and when within fifty years of the shore, the boat capsized, filled and sank. The men were twenty minutes in the water before help arrived from the warship, and then two of the men were missing, T. Niblett and Fred Simpkin. Two of the others were unconscious and had to be rastored by artificial means. The party was taken back to the ship,

Melboukve, Aug. 29

Excitement has been caused in the religious world by Bishop Goe inhibiting the Rev. D. M. Berry, the wellknown Anti-Ritualietic agitator, from preaching in the Wesleyan Church. The Bishop states that he acted at the request of the Bishop of Ballarat, who complained that the Rev. Mr Berry was intruding in another diocese, and he did not want him to preach in the Wesleyan Church.

London, Aug. 28. It is reported that part of Scheeper's commando is near Mosselberg. Affidavits having been made by witnesses in regard to the Boers treacherously shooting A ustralian soldiers, Lord Kitchener has issued a proclamation, announcing that drastic measures will be taken to deal with offenders.

The British submarines, building ot Barrow, are fitted with horizontal and vertical rudders and water ballast arrangements, enabling them to rise to the surface and instantly dive and discharge a torpedo. It is claimed that they surpass American and French submarines in quickness and accuracy. "The Times," dealing with New York municipal affairs, says that one man's yearly blackmail in connection with the New York fire brigade contracts, amounts to .£IO,OOO sterling. Every labourer ]with Tammany influence gets 10s as his daily wages.

Crawshaw's steel works and colliery at Merthyr Tydvil are amalgamating with Guest, Keen & Co., of Dowlais and Cardiff, with a view to economising expenses and using the coal got in the vicinity of the works.

The Shanghai correspondent of the " Standard " reports that on Monday last Majcr Feriera of the Grenadier Guards, who is serving with a Chinese regiment, and the Revs. M. R. Duncan

and J. A. O. Smith reached Singanfu,

where the Imperial Court is temporarily situated. Hong Kong, Aug. 28 Six Christians at Kulja, in China, have been killed. Tokio, Aug. 28. Japan is sending a commission of merchants to Russia to open up markets. Rome, Aug. 28. The Vatican organs support the dissentients in Malta and renew their attacks on the British. Washington, Aug. 28. The American Government has decided to discontinue the purchase of Australian coal for transports crossing the Pacific. When the supply of coal at Honolulu is exhausted it will be replaced by American coal