Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIV, Issue 2837, 8 January 1904, Page 2

Telegraphic News

FROM orm SP_OIA_ CIORBBSPON DBNTS. I By Telegraph] Sydney, Jan 7. Some members of the hostile tribe, who participated in the recent massacres in German New Guinea, seized a small steamer and] compelled the native firemen to proceed to sea. Nothing has been seen of them, and it is believed that the boiler of the vessel exploded, and all perished London, Jan. 6. British naval reservists, with ten officers have left London for Genoa to take the Japanese cruisers to Yokohama, under the command of Admiral Mathou.

Public opinion in France is against French interference in the event oi China joining Japan,

The " St. James' Gazette" urges that the policing of Chinese ports in the event of war should be entrusted to the United States and Great Britain.

There is an extraordinary demand at Cardiff" for tonnage for the Far East. The British Admiralty paid 20s a ton for three colliers of 5000 tons each for Hong Kong to take prompt shipments.

•' The Times " states that it appears that for the first time for some years the English bowling was decidedly superior to the Australian, which lacks variety. The Australian eleven, it says has a decided tail while the English has none.

Mr Yeaburgh, M.P. for Chester, urges the appointment of a non-party Royal Commission to consider Britain's fiscal policy in all its bearings on trade, with the colonies and foreign countries presided over by judicial aurhority.

Baldwin's blast furnaces and steel works, near Swansea, will stop on Saturday. Three hundred and fifty hands have been paid off, owing to over production and dumping.

Professor Bell Hansen, a German scientist, and Sir Win, Ramsay have devised a method of extracting zinc white, worth _S3O a ton, from the refuse heaps of Welsh mines. Fifteen tons of rubbish yield a zinc white. New York, Jan. 7.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the " New York Herald" says that twenty million roubles have been spent monthly for a long time on fortifying and strategic railways for the army and navy in the Far East. When Russia seized Port Arthur, the Treasury possessed 980,010,000 roubles, available in the event of war with Japan. Paris, Jan. 6.

The Socialists have expelled M. Alexandre Millerand, Socialist, Deputy for the Seine, because he declined to support a motion that France should initiate a policy of disarmament.