Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2803, 4 September 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

HIOM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. [By Tblbqrafh]. COCKSFOOT. Wellington, Sept. 1. The Agent-General cables:—"Cocksfoot market quiet. Prices slightly weaker. Average price for bright, clean, New Zealand cocksfoot, seventeen pounds per bushel, on spot, is 48s per cwt."

London, Sept. 2.

M. A, Holbein made another unsuccessful attempt to swim from Dover to Calais. He was immersed 27 hours and 20 minutes, and got within four miles from the French coast, when an adverse current carried him back four miles, rendering the struggle hopeless. The water was smooth and warm.

Knight, in his second innings against Surrey, scored 91 not out. He carried his bat through the innings. Batting against Hampshire, Braund made 134 runs.

A meeting held in West Birmingham, approved of Mr Chamberlain's fiscal proposals, and urged the imposition of a revenue duty on imports of foreign manufacture. A steam collier ran down, off Yarmouth, a pleasure yacht. Three of the crew and three passengers were drowned, while six were saved. In pursuance of the decree of Mr T. H. Tristam, the Commissiary of the Archbishop of Canterbury, confirmed by the High Court, authorised extreme measures unless the injunction was obeyed by a given date. A clean sweep has suddenly been made of a cartload of confessional boxes, crucifixes, statutes and other illegal ornaments from the Church of Annunciation, Brighton, by the successful petitioner and forty men. The supplications of the nuns and the protests of clergymen were unavailing. The Highland Railway is adopting motor carriages for lighter traffic, thereby effecting an enormous saving. A fire in the Limehouse Basin, at the West India Tock, destroyed £50.000 worth of walnut, teak and mahogany timber. New York, Sept. 2.

The weather is foggy with an absolute calm, and the race has been postponed in the hope of getting a better wind. Sir T. Lipton is disturbed at the delays in the races, as bis presence is required in England, in connection with his business. His crew are disheartened at their inability to fin ; sh the races, and have lost much of their smartness and vigour. Constantinople, Sept. 2. Five arrests have been made in connection with the murder and attack on the life of Mr Magelsen, the American Consul at Beyvout. The Porte will shortly have 350,000 troops in Macedonia. Insurgents occupy a mountain pass at Chinghiti, commanding the Uskub railway. Many reports aie current here that the insurgents have decidetT to murder the British Consul or a journalist at Salonika or Monastir, and dynamite the American Mission at Monastir, in order to provoke intervention. Fighting at Smalovo has been renewed. Two hundred Bulgarians were killed on Sunday and 460 on Monday. The bodies of 180 men and 200 women were found in the ruins of Armensi , in the Debra district, having been massacred by Turkish troops. Colonels Joutcheff and Jankoff, the insurgent leaders, have proclaimed a general insurrection in X orthern Macedonia.