Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2821, 13 November 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

FROM ODR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS

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COCKSFOOT,

Wellington, Nov. 10

The Agent-General cables:—"Cocksfoot market firm; but little business doing. Average price for bright, clean New Zealand seed, weighing 171bs per bushel, on spot, 50s per cwt."

London, Nov. 11

Arrangements have been made for the sloop Mutine to replace the Karrakatta on the Australasian station.

The Bishop of St. Albans presided at a successful Melanesian meeting in the London District.

Germany has applied for the use of British territory in marching forces to Fort Warnbadi.

The authorities in Cape Colony hesitate to grant the concession, fearing that by so doing they will exasperate the Hottentots resident in Cape Colony,

In connection with the discussion over the nature of the meeting at the Birmingham Town Hall to-night, at which Lord Hugh Cecil and Mr Winston Churchill are to deliver addresses, the Lord Mayor of Birmingham explained that he accepted the Chairmanship of the meeting on condition that only Unionists would speak. The tickets had been distributed irrespective of persons or political parties. He admits that the organisers of the meeting were Free Trade Unionists, whose principal officers were Liberals. The " Times " says the meeting was practically a Liberal demonstration against the Unionist Government. Mr Balfour's speech at the Guildhall banquet was well received on the Continent, especially in France. The miners at Bellshill, in Lanarkshire, adopted a resolution supporting Mr Chamberlain's proposals; Colonel Brown, late Military Attache in China, estimates the cost of the Siberian railway at £75,000,000, and says it is invaluable for military purposes, though the troops by train will take twenty days in making the journey.

Tokio, Nov. 11. The Prime Minister of Japan, in receiving an anti-Russian League, urged the necessity for unity and and solidarity amongst the Japanese to face the existing situation, which was a most critical one. At a banquet here, 250 of the most educated section of the people, petitioned the Mikado to take prompt and decisive action to enforce the Manchurian settlement. Berlin, Nov. 11, Herr Gothein, a member of the Reichstag, addressing the Frankfort Chamber of Commerce, said protection would materially reduce the freights earned by British shipping, and the English bankers profits in negotiating foreign loans. He declared that Mr

Chamberlain's proposals were gaining ground, and, lie blamed German newspaper attacks and the German Customs Legislation, as the chief causes of the friction between the two nations.

He added that the present outlook for German commercial politics was cheerless. New York, Nov. 11. The Duke of Roxburgh has married Miss May Goelet, daughter of the late Mr Ogden Goelet, the American millionaire in the St Thomas' Episcapal Church in New York. The bride'a fortune is ,£2,000,000, and the wedding presents are valued at £200,000. Matty of the most costly of them will remain in England, thus avoiding the payoafe'n. of .£sojooo in Customs duties ab ftew York. Thousands of women, outside the Church, fought in their frantic efforts to approach the carriage's., The police were overpowei &d and had to bei reinforced. Some Women thrust their hands through the open window of the carriage, clutching the bride's dress in the hope of securing fragments of her gowii as souvenirg.