Special Telegraphic.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1987, 7 May 1906, Page 4

Special Telegraphic.

DUNEDIN, May 7th. Football. Kaikorai beat Port eight to three. Alhambra beat Zingari three to nil. University beat Dunedin six to three. Pirates and Union drew three each. Justices Edwards and Cooper reserved decision in the application of V. Braund reviewing decision of Justice Cooper in declining to extend time for preservation of the books of the Colonial Bank. James Stewart, 74 years, met his death by choking. It is supposed it was caused by trying to eat a piece of orange left by his bedside. W. Belcher, secretary of the Seamen’s Union, in a speech on Saturday ■aid that what methods of the Seamen’s Union would be he was not prepared to say, but he could say that the award of the Arbitration Court would be pretty severely turned inside out before the end of two years. The Union would leave no stone unturned to have certain portions set aside as contrary to statutory law. Wong Jug was arrested, charged with issuing valueless cheques totaling £2O on local tradesmen. Joseph Brown was committed for trial at Christchurch, on a charge of stabbing Ray, licensee of the Railway Hotel. Harry Walter Worley is charged with embezzling £330 of money of his employer, a butcher. The dredging returns total lll7ozs, Molyneux Kohinoor heading the list with 99ozs ISdwts. The race for two thousand guineas in London resulted —Flair 1. Lischant paid up. The winner is owned by an ex-Australian, Sir D, Cooper.

GREYTOWN NORTH, May 7. Mr Thomas McCracken, a former resident of Cromwell, and for twelve years editor and proprietor of the Argus, has v 1 and taken over to-day the “-rrromirapTi Standard,” the oldest established paper in the district. The “ Standard ” is published in Greytown North three times a week. CABLE .NEWS: - LONDON, May 6. In connection with the Egyptian frontier dispute Britain has presented Turkey with a note equivalent to ultimatum which expires in ten days. It insists on the withdrawal of Turkish troops from the disputed territory till the boundaries are settled. France and Russia are supporting Britain. A Russian, named Striga, wa* mortally wounded in France by the explosion of a bomb he had in hia pocket. It is said that he intended to wreck a train on which his former companion was travelling. The sentence of crucifixion passed on a Moroccan, who murdered 86 women has been over-ruled; more bodies have been unearthed. Stainbank, a Natal magistrate, with his wife and another lady and con - stable, were returning from collecting the hut tax when the natives volleyed into them. Stainbank died from injury; the constable was also wounded. The chiefs in the neighbourhood express indignation and grief, and sent men to follow the murderers. Transvaal papers are indignant over the Imperial Government’s proclamotion for repatriation of Chinese who desire to return. The contents of 70 per cent of the safes in San Francisco were found to be only ashes. The losses of the British Insurances Companies is estimated at six million sterling. Twenty-two corpses were found in the mine in Westphalia where explosion took place last June, having evidently been starved after the explosion. Fifty long sentence prisoners in Shanghai gaol mutinied, and attempted to escape, wounding the governor and two warders. The governor shot one man, and another Chinese was killed before the mutiny was quelled. INTERCOLONIAL. SYDNEY, May 5. The colliery employees Federation, at Newcastle, was rejected by two votes, the proposal to cancel registration in Arbitration Court. BRISBANE, May 5. The dairymen of Bundaberg district are alarmed at the spread of Eedwater among stock. Serious losses are reported.