Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2804, 8 September 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

FROM OUB SPEOIAL OORRESPONDftNtS. [By Telegraph]. COCKSFOOT. Wellington, Sept. 7. The Agent-General cables; —" Cocks foot market firm with improved demand. Average price for bright, clean, New Zealand seed, seventeen pounds per bushel, is forty-eight to fifty shillings per cwt.

'London, Sept. 6,

" The Times " Vienna correspondent, commenting on the arrests at Nlsh, says the regicides and their conspirators number 7, while the officers who took no part in the conspiracy, number over 1000. In view of the divided state of the Army, it is feared that King Peter will seek diversion in external adventure.

Router's Agency denies the Turkish official accounts of the losses in Niveskad, and states that 200 soldiers were surprised, and offered no resistance and were released.

The reports of the bloodless conduct of the Turks, on re-occupying Niveskah and Klissura, are equally correct.

Ismail Pasha, with six battalions, attacked 1500 insurgents at Eyslusion, but the result is unknown.

The late Mr J. McNeil Whistler's estate is valued at £10,602.

Lord Finlay, after paying a visit to East Africa, protests against sending thither undesirable aliens. Probably 95 per cent of the Zionists are unacquainted with agriculture.

A conference of 600 delegates in Glasgow, representing 239 co-operative societies and 101 trades unions in Scotland, decided that it was not desir-

able to accept old age pensions contingent on preferential tariffs.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 6. Russian advices , state that serious differences have occurred between- the Shah of Persia and the head of tlife Shia sect. The latter threaten to a.k the Sultan of Turkey to take the country and Islamists under his protection.

Rome, Sent. 6. It is reported here that Pope Pius X. desires to break the tradition that an Italian must be the Secretary of State and to appoint Cardinal Moran, though his liberal views are an objection to the appointment.

Constantinople, Fept. 6. Six hundred houses and seven mosques and,synagogues vvere destroyed fyr fire at Trevnik, in Ba.nia.V Spveffci fatalities occurred and 300 persons were rendered homeless.

Capetown, Sept. 6. v The premises of Mercer and Shongan, Van Der Byl, and also the Wiener Company, in Capetown, have been burned. The damage amounts to £10,000.