Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2799, 14 August 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

FROM OUB SPECIAL OOBBBSPONDHNTS

[By Telegraph],

Christchurch, Aug. 13. The following are the results of to'dey'e races:—Summer Steeplechase—Step-dance r 1, (3iv. £5 163 6d), Bombardo 2 (div. 17s). August Handicap.—Goldepur 1 (div. £6 7s), Windwhißtle2 (div. £3 15a 6d). Hunt Olub'e Handicap.—Agitator 1, div. £4 Iβ. Grand National Hurd'ee.~Waiwera 1 (dividend £3 13a), Treadwind 2 (dividend £2 2s 6c3). London, Aug. 12. A project is afloat to hold a World's Fair at the Crystal Palace in 1906. [n the House of Lords the Irish Land Bill was read a third time. Francis Dubedat, formerly Preeident of the Dublin Stock Exchange, has been sentenced to four yeors , penal servitude, and Eustace Johnson, barrister, to imprisonment for a year for obtaining money on the strength of a Delogoa Bay concession after the concession had been withdrawn. The Liberal leaders recently assured a deputation, representing 800 Free Churoh Councillors, that if the Liberals return to power, they will deal promply and effeotu , ally in amending the Education Aot. Advices from Rome state that the Em* peror of Auetria's veto of Cardinal Rampolla ia attributed to the Cardinal's active opposi , tion to Austria as the ally of Italy. Ib is alleged that ha seized every opportunity of showing his feelings and prevented the Emperor's visit to Rome. The " Catholic Herald" states that Cardinal Vanutelli will succeed Cardinal Ram , polla as Secretary of State. By a majority the Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of Mr Justice Bigham that the action of the South"Wales Miners* Federation in inducing its members to stop work OD certain days in colleriee so as to reduce the output did cob constitute an actionable conspiracy, and has declared the the action illegal. The King has started for Marienbad as t he Duke of Lancaster. "Truth" asserts that he will make no State visit to Vienna. The total loss of life in the Frenoh train disaster was eighty-four, including one English tourUt. An overhead motor ignited the wood work. Fears are expressed lest a similar disaster occur in the London tubes, Newspaper correspondents recommend that the cars be constructed entirely of steel or aluminium. Yorkshire dismissed Middlesex for 79, Hirst taking four wickets for 31 runs, and Rhodes six for 37. In the Houee of Commons, the Speaker would not permit discussion on the fiscal enquiry proposal, but on the eecond reading debate on the Appropriation Bill. Sir Chas Dilke, said the Government by the manner in which the fiscal matter had been brought forward had disturbed the trade of the country. Lord Hugh Cecil 'protested that Mr Chamberlain's combining of the prestige of a Minister of the Crown with the utmost liberality of the ordinary politician was a constitutional scandal, scarcely less than Mr Balfour'e epposition to discussion of the subject. Mr Balfour, replying to Mr Lloyd George, promised within a month an instalment of the Board of Trade figures conneoted with the fiscal question. He deprecated the im' portation of theories into the Board of Trade statistics. He would not ask the permanent officials to embark in polemics. He never discussed the matter of policy with themi and had not the smallest idea of their opin» ions on the fiscal problem.

The Hon. H. Copeland, AgenfGoceral for New South Wales, in a letter published in the " Standard," quoting decimal statistics in support of Mr Chamberlain's demand for a fiscal inquiry, declared that unless favour , able intervention occurs, Australia's foreign tr-do in a few years will exceed that with the Motherland.

Germau advices state that M. Bostovaky, the murdered Russian Consul, was reputed te be a supporter of Secret Societies, A Bulgarian teicher accompanied him at the moment of his aesassination.

The repott of the Alien Immigration Com* mission recommends the regulations of the entrance of undesirables into Great Britain, plaoing them in places of residence under control, and their repatriation in certain cases. Mr Araold White, the well known author has been fined £100 for commenting in the newspaper, the " Sun," on the Whitaker , Wright case while Wright is awaiting trial. St. Petersburg, Aug. 12. A number of the managers of the wells at ! Biicu attribute the strike to the reduction in wages. They blame the whole , alo expor .

tera for imposing an oppressive yoke on smaller merchants.

The Minister of the Interior believes that there are 40,000 strikers nt Baku, 50,000 ab Kietf, and 80,000 at Odessa, and thtt they are the vanguard of a vast wecreb a^Hociation Capetown, Aug. 12 The Natal Government, hat* resigned after a defeat in Committee of Bupply by 17 votes to 16. Sir J. L. Hullett, loader of the Op' position, has been summoned to form ft Cabi net. Constantinople, Aug. 12. The Sultan sent hie eon to the Ruesiun Ambassador with further apologies for the murder of the Consul and offered £8,000 as compensation to M. Rostovsky'e family. Forty'six Macedonians were killed in fighting at Okrida. Insurgents surrounded 200 soldiers at Dirje.