Telegraphic News
PBOM ODU SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS [By Teleoraph].
Sydney, July 24
R. McGregor received a severe blow over the kidneys in the Bathurst match, rendering it impossible for him to play on Saturday.
Spencer's leg is not yet sufficiently well to permit him to play.
The visitors received unbounded hospitality at Bathurst. The Mayor interviewed them prior to the match, and the Western Unions gave a banquet in their honour last night.
London, July 22
It is stated that several of the professionals invited to join Warner's te*m are dissatisfied with Marylebone Club's ofier of .£3OO and expenses, with a bonus added if the tour proves a financial success.
London " Truth " and other newspapers eulogise Dr Moorhouse for resigning the Bishopric of Manchester, when he found his strength was unequal to the work, and also for refusing a pension.
It is reported that the Government has arranged to pay the Cunard Co. over a million sterling to build two steamers to be the largest and fastest afloat, f orjuse with the rest of the fleet, as armed cruisers, and also for an improved postal service across the Atlantic.
Viscount Curzon has been offered two years additional tenure of hits post as Viceroy of India.
At a conference of cotton employees in Lancashire, the textile operators resolved to oppose the taxation of raw material.
The London County Council has agreed to contribute i? 20,000 a year for the maintenance of the proposed Technical Schools.
The Duke of Maryborough hasjbeen appointed Under-Secretary for the Colonies.
The King refused to allow Scotland Yard detectives to attend him in Ireland.
The " Times" says that in official quartets it is anticipated that a dissolution will take place early next session and the general elections will be held in March.
Capetown, July 22. The Legislative Council in Pretoria
agreed to apportion .£296,875 to compensate the Hatherley distillery. The concession to the distillery granted I y Ivruger was most unpopular.
St. Petersburg, July 22
Eleven torpedo boats will leave Kroi.stadt to reinforce the Russian Pacific squadron,
CONLTANTINOPLE, July 22
Of 353 persons, tried by Court Martial for the Salonika bomb outrages, four were sentenced to death nhrl twenty-nine to imprisonment, while twenty-three Were acquitted. Nearly 300 of those implicated were outside the jurisdiction of the inquiry, which was strictly limited to the Salonika outrages. Thirty insurgents attacked 250 soldiers at TPoopari in the Monastir district. A stubborn fight took plaCe and lasted for ten hours. The insurgents fled, leaving eight men killed, and the Turks lost four men.
New York, July 22. A severe earthquake has occurred throughout the island of St. Vincent, and La Soufriere is ag*in in a state of eruption,
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2793, 24 July 1903, Page 2
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