Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIV, Issue 2836, 5 January 1904, Page 2

Telegraphic News

KROM OOK BPBOIAL OORRESPONDKNTS. [By iKLKOHAPHJ. Wellington, Jan. 4. Wellington require 268 runs to win London, Jan. 3. The Admiralty denies any intention to send the Formidable, the Vindicitive, the Irresistable and a cruiser from the Mediterranean to China ; but, at Portsmouth, it has vessels to replace any that may be hurriedly despatched from the Mediterranean to the Far East. Russia has requistioned the railway companys' trucks and locomotives to convey heavy reinforcements to Manchuria. Italy is anxious for the early removal of the newjJapanese cruisers ip order

to avoii complications with Russia

The cruisers have been re named the Morotta and Rivadavia,

The Caafhas granted Admiral Alexiotf a special flag and also a salute oi twelve guns*. The" Japaiiese Legation says that Japan is able to land an army corps at Fusiari in forty-eight hours*

Twelve highly paid Glasgow marine engineers are starting oh Tuesday for Yokohama to strengthen the Japanese navy.

In the course of his annual address J 1 to the English Positivist Committee, , the President Mr Frederick Harrisoh, denounced Ml* Chamberlain's fiscal revolution. As an alternative Mr Harrison advocated the re-opening of the whole question of land holding and land taxation, The " Daily Chronicle " asserts that Mr Chamberlain is playing a single star part and is afraid that the piece will no longer draw if he is absent. The " Chronicle " believes that he intends to transfer his campaign to the Colonies if he loses the first general election in Great Britain. Mr W. P. Reeves, the New Zealand Agent-General, is inviting tenders for mail service from New Zealand to London, calling at British outposts. „ The death is announced of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte. Constantinople, Jan. 3. At the Porte's request, Italy has appointed General Degeorgis, Commandant of the Macedonia Gendarmie. New York, Jan. 3. The funerals of the victims of the theatre fire took place on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The long lines of the processions were constantly proceeding to the cemeteries. " Lead Kindly Light" was sung at all the funeral services, and the church bells were tolling all day, while business and the seasonable celebrations were suspended. The public schools were closed on Monday in memory of the thirty-four school teachers who perished. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the proprietors of the theatre and the building commissioner on a charge of manslaughter. There were not enough coffins and hearses available for the funeral rites. The Mayor, after inspection, declared that the building did not comply with the law and ought not to have been opened. The operator of the electric light for the moonlight dance states that he saw the arc splatter between the carbons, and the curtain was immediately alight.