Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2779, 9 June 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

FROM ODB BPKOIAL CORRESPONDENTS. ißv Telegraph]. COCKSFOOT. Wellington, June 8. The Agent-General's cable received to-day, reads:—"There has been no alteration in the position of the cocksfoot seed market during the past week. —T. E. Donne." London, June 7. Miss Ada Crossley, Madame Albani, Miss Clara Butt and Miss Marie Narelle assisted at a successful concert, in aid of the funds of the King's Colonials. Several members of the Royal Household were present. Lord Salisbury is better. The strength of the British Volunteer force on January Ist was 250,990, showing a shortage in officers of 1895. The King and Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales attended the Hospital Sunday service at St. Paul's Cathedral, There were great crowds present. New York, June 7. Forest fires are still raging in the North Atlantic States. The Washington " Observer " states that six hundred miles of the sea coast are affected by a dense smoke, rendering navigation difficult. Messrs William Rockfeller and Robert Pruyn, and other millionaires sent three thousand fighters to Adirondacks, where hundreds of farmers are fleeing for their lives. The villages of Sharman and Crystal Lake, in the State of Maine, are destroyed and a thousand persons are rendered homeless. J A cloud-burst occurred at Spartan-

burg, Carolina. The dam was swept away and the country flooded, and the cotton mills wrecked. The damape is estimated at two million dollars. Every building in Pancelot. containing a thousand inhabitants, was wrecked and many people were drowned. Cairo, June 7.

Owing to the open'ng of the Assouan reservoir, the summer supply of Nile water whereon the cotton and sugar cane crops depend, has been doubled. Rome, June 7.

In the Chamber Signor Morgan, a Socialist member, referring to the Czar's coming visit and King Edward's recent visit, said that King Edward who had recently visited Rome was received by the Socialists without a hostile demonstration, because he was a constitutional ruler. He differed, from the Czar who had not given a constitution to his people, St. Petersburg, June 7. "Russia threatens to call China to account unless she fulfills Prince Ching's pledge not to employ foreigners in the naval and miliary administration of Northern China, and alleges that many Japanese are employed in the administration there.