Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2775, 27 May 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

from our special correspondents [By Telegraph]. COCKSFOOT. Wellington, May 25. The Agent-General cables :—There is scarcely any demand for Cocksfoot seed on the spot. Prices are nominal. Fair business is being done in forward shipments at 45s to 46s per cwt. London, May 25. Mrs Bedford, at the Bow Street Court, pleaded guilty to a charge of falsifying the register in connection with the alleged birth of a child and was fined __?10. The Government agreed to maintain the existing law regarding children employed on the stage. In order to prevent the Morgan is ing of the tin trade in the Straits Settlements, the Government has imposed a prohibitive duty on the expert of tin ore, unless it is smelted in the Colony. A return has been published, showing that Germany imports from Britain and British Colonies 18 per cent of the whole of her imports, while the exports to Britain and British Colonies are 25 per cent. The body of Miss Whalley, whose supposed abduction was cabled on March 11th, has been discovered in a sand heap in the river, below Moscow. The indications are that she was accidently drowned.

The .Admiral.} is oitiering- from private shipbuilding yards fifteen torpedo destroyers of increased size. Vickars, Son, and Maxim will build nine sub•norines of the existing type, and one of another type designed as an experiment. Two cyclists, in a motor race at the Bristol Sports, collided and one was flung, with a speed of forty miles an hour, amongst the spectators, injuring eight and killing two boys, A sale of pictures at Christie's rooms in London brought a total of £105,845. The Vaile collection realised _558,529, Gainsborough's portrait of a girl which a Bond Street dealer refused to buy for £5, realised £9000. A picture by Romney went at £9490. M. Chavilhusan, the new Governor of the Hunan province, has issued a proclamation, enforcing respect for foreigners. He threatens severe penalties against agitators. St. Petersburg, May 25. Russians are constructing a railway to the mouth of the Yalu River, in connection with the Chinese Eastern system. Count Tolstoi and M. Maxim Gorki strongly denounced the Kishnieft' ontrages. Paris, May 25. Nine deaths were caused, by the Paris-Madrid motor race. The crowds along the route caused great danger to the competitors. Ottawa,. May 25. The electric car employees in Montreal have struck, demanding the exclusive employment of Unionists.