Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2745, 30 January 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

.FROM 00BBE9PO#DHNTS. ! mmmm^m f£f.«..-- > »'•■-, *■•.*■!/: -: - ■ jgy TitaeßAPH], London, Jan. 28.'"""' Lord Balfour of Burleigh stated that Germany and Britain lia'g¥ded' ? %poti ; joint action in Venezuela in July last. ,-M-ig the Eewwe -engaged in the blockade the offer of 30 per Oustoins'of Puerto' Cabello and La Guayra sufficient to lustify the .raking of the blockade if the J . t IST' <y r *s>. I *•.•, , non-blockading powers interested do not participate in { thQ M^eceip ts, therefrom. Some of the patients in the Colney Hatch Asylum evaded the nurses, and roamed about the ground 5 in£"their night attire until the morning. The mains in No, 5 Ward , 'were unrecognisable. . JQr ,Savarjd, ( the mcdi- i cal :,Jbhat.Jwaterj waß abun^ani.' This main huijdjpg ,w,a,s nniiijtire*d7i;ne deatn roll numbers fiftytwo. Ihe Press insists upon a strict enquiry into the outbreak. Tne Oxford Cambridge boat race has been fixed to take place on April 2nd. The Hon. JWilliam Jukes Steward, of .New Zealand, has been gazetted a Knight}......,.-,;.,, ?"*ss ity $e|ects v proposed Oatholic denominational j .University and recommends an iacreased endowment* Mao W the I Jesuits* , University at St. Stephen's Green, or

that the Archbishop and Bishop be granted a new college with a Catholic atmosphere. The Commission suggests ah increased grant to the Belfast Queen's College with a view to its development

The frequency and extent of the Empress DoWageVs presents to the Foreign Ministers at Pekin cause embarrassment, since they are unable to reciprocate or to refuse to accept them.

Arrangements have been made for th.eL ; Mediterranean fleet and sixty eight Italian war vessels to assemble at Naples where King Edward VII and King Emanuel of Italy will •■'fWi©w thetnr.'"'

Capetown, Jan. 28. -.-The Afrikander newspapers praise Mr Chamberlain's speeches at Lichten>burg and'Ventersdorp as wise, healing, 'atid- courageous utterances.

Messrs A. Wolmarans and A. D. Fischer, the Boer delegates who visited Europe, are to be permitted to return to South Africa.

Mr and Mrs Chamberlain had a tstesf- welcome at Mafeking, the Hon. Sir W. F. Hely-Hutchison, Governor of Cape Colony, Sir A. JLawley and General Baden-Powell participating. The Jesuits' Mashona natives' band travelled 800 miles to join in the welcome.