Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2770, 8 May 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

from our special correspondents. [By Telegraph], London, May 6. The Emerald, a turbine steamer, successfully crossed the Atlantic, despite severe gales. The Rev, Morrison, an American Missionary, has reported to Lord Lansdowne many flagrant cases of official atrocities in the Congo, and declares that no Government in the world is so wicked, not even Turkey. Owing to Yung Lu's death, the Emperor telegraphed to Kang Yu Wei, the reformer, who fled in the late troubles to return immediately, promising that all will be well. Kang Yu Wei has accordingly sailed from Calcutta to Hong Kong. The American Consul, in Canton,

declares that 150,000 people are starving in K-wangsi. Five fchoUsahcl Indian camels have been purchased for Somaliland. Paris, May 6. Two submarines at La Rochelle attacked ironclads forward, and then plunged and attacked them aft, Eye witnesses declare that in actual warfare the division would have been annihilated. New York, May 6. | The Columbia beat the Reliance by a quarter of a mile in a seven knot breeze. The Dominion liner Hamilton rammed the Clyde liner Saginaw off the Delaware coast, and twenty of the Saginaw's passengers were drowned. The Chief Commissioner of Lands in British Columbia states that the Columbian Western Railway offered him 30,000 acres if he would issue them Crown grants for 600,000 acres of valuable coal and petroleum lands in the Kootenay district. The grants were signed, but were then cancelled. Ottawa, May 6. Tbe authorities at Saskatchewan vigouvously suppressed an attempt to organise a Doukhobor pilgrimage simil;.*'_o that of last winter. Tho leaders were arrested and the pilgrims were sent back to their homes, Melbourne, May 7. General meetings of every branch of the Railway Societies will be held tonight and on their decisions the executive will determine the course of action. The President of the A malgamated Society states that if Parliament passed a law prohibiting affiliation the men would observe it, though under protest. They relied on Parliament to recognise the justice of their contention. There is no doubt that the ringleaders of what the Premier terms the revolt a re the executive officers of the Engine ] rivers'.Association. What they deci.le to-night the others will follow. It is understood that a measure will be submitted to Parliament, forbiddingthe affiliation of Railway Unions with the Trades Hall. The ".Age "says the Ministry was wise in determining that Parliament shall dissolve the railway crisis. The " Argus " says that the public approve the action of the Government, and it is beyond doubt that Parliament will also do so. Beyond question the Opposition must unite to maintain the Ministry and to uphold the Act of Parliament.