Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2804, 15 September 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

'" FROM OHR RPBOIAI- OORUBSPONDHNTS. [By Telegraph j. COCKSFOOT. Wellington, Sept. 14. The Agent-Genornlcables: —"Cocksfoot seed market firm, at prices cabled last week." London, Sept. 13. Two colliers, working in one of the GW.hridge mirfes, which are lighted by electricity, were electrocuted owing to a leakage of electric power. Sir Robt. Giffen, addressing the British Association, estimated the Empire's income at £320,000,000, and its accumulated wealth at .£22,250,000,000 It is understood that the bookmakers benefit to the extent of annually at their customers' expense. The " Financial News" expresses regret at the action of the Bank of Australasia in writing down its consols from 90 to 85, and adds, though this is sound banking, it is likely to cause alarm when the public sees cautious Directors discounting a further decline. Rome, Sept. 13. Doctors Lapponi and Mazzoni, the medical attendants of the late Pope, publish a defence in reply to newspaper charges of incompetence. This shows that remarkable intriguing took place round Pope Leo's death bed. Cardinal Rampolla objected to the publication of the true origin of the illness, though the doctors insisted in order to protect their reputation. They finally wrote a full history of the case and gave sealed copies to Cardinal Rampolla and the Papal Major Domo. St. Petersburg, Sept. 13. Two high officers of the Russian Secret Police, acting under orders, organised a series of secret meetings of workmen throughout the Empire with the object of arresting the ringleaders of the revolutionary movement. The agents and the povocateurs have now been exiled to Siberia, as punishment for serious disturbances connected with the meetings. Paris, Sept. 13. Admiral Jaure Ginberry, is in readiness to take a French battleship and three cruisers to The Levant to protect French interests there. Washington, Sept. 13. The American Minister has telegraphed to Washington that Russia has requested China's permission to postpone the evacuation of one frontier of the province of Manchuria for several months after October Bth, the date of the promised withdrawal. Constantinople, Sept. 13. | Prisons in Constantinople are crowded with Bulgarians and Macedonians, arrested on the eve of the anniversary of the Sultan's accession. Eighty-four Christian villages in the Monastir district were destroyed during the recent operations. The Turks are preparing a big drive in the Yenidge district. In the recent fight at Resur 103 insurgents were killed.