Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2818, 3 November 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

FROM OTTR SPECIAL CORRESPON DKNTS. [By Telegraph]. COCKSFOOT. Wellington, Nov. 2. The Agent-General cables: —" N o alteration in thecocksfoot market sine w last cabled report."

London, Nov. 1.

Mr lan Malcolm, member for Stovvmarket, has seceded from the Free Fooders, becaxise their manifesto does not su]>port Mr Balfour to the full extent of the vote at the Sheffiield conference.

1 Mr E. W. Beckett, M.P., for Whit;by, in a speech at Scarborough, in (which he supported the Government 'within the limits of Mr Balfonr's Sheffield speech, believed that the country

, which dumped goods into another country was in greater danger than the country into which the goods were dumped. If the Government accepted Mr Chamberlain's policy, it would split the party.

Lord Morley, speaking afc Plympfcon, said that though lie differed from Mr Chamberlain's proposals in some respects, yet lie differed with great diffidence. The Government.-; position was somewhat difficult. He confessed that if the seed, sown by Mr Chamberlain, ripened, they were prepared to reap the crop. Free Trtido was one of the conditions whereunder Britain's prosperity had been created. He maintained that the difficulty was to disenfcauyle cause and effect;. It might be that in some cases retaliation was advisable ; but he would liko to know what mandate the Government wanted A mandate to impose duties whenever they thought lit was impossible constitutionally. If the Government produced a concrete case, doubtless the FTouse of Commons would sanction it. He did not believe that dumping had seriously injured the Home trade, and he had no belief whatever that the taxation of food would raise wages. Paris, Nov. I. An agreement has been signed between China and Franco for the construction of the Yunnan railway. The British Commercial Delegatea who are visiting Paris, are delighted ,ts the cordiality whichjs everywhere.

manifested. Mutual convictions are expressed that the occasion will lead to more important, results than could be anticipated. The delegates . witnessed a very rowdy debate in the Chamber of Deputies.

ftra-hbe was isolated for the greater pnrt of to-day from telegraphic and telephonic communication with the rest of Europe and America, and internal communication is now interrupted. The disturbance is attributed to severe electrical earth disturbances , , drie to seismic and atmospheric phenomena, including thij Aurora feorealis. Communication was suddenly restored at sunset. An infernal r.mchine exploded in the Church, in Paris' ( but only sliglit damage was "Despite the due to its being A ". SfiiVi'r/s Day, the clergy ascribe the deed to anti-Clericalists.

Constantinople, Nov. 1

Five thotrsand people attended the funeral of Sagouni, the late President of the Armenian Eefugee Society, who was murdered last week presumably by an agent of advanced Armenian societies, which disapproved of Sagouni's advecation of passive measures. His friends have determined to avenge his death, even if it is necessary to do it with their o\vh hands.

ll?Ew York, > t oy. 1

A gravel car at Tndianopolis, running down an incline into a siding, telescoped a car of a passing train, containing the Purdue University football team, which, with many students was travelling to contest the State Championship with the Indiana University. Fifteen were killed and 50 injured, many being horribly mutilated. The students' grief and horror were increased by the necessity for the surgeons performing amputations on the spot.