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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9527, 20 July 1899, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

(Beoeived July 20, I a.m.)

London, July 19. Sir T. Lipton's America Cup yacht Shamrock outsailed the yacht Britannia by thirteen minutes over a forty-mile course. The Prince of Wales was on board tho Britannia.

The House of Commons by a large majority rejected the bill prohibiting the manufacture for sale or importation of murgarine colored so as to resemble butter.

A great flight of English and Belgian pigeons was made from Thnrse last Tuesday, including birds belonging to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. None of the pigeons, however, reached their destination. The Jockey Club have suspended Tod Sloan, the American jockey, for disobedience at the post at the Sandown Park meeting. Washington, July 19. The war correspondents' exposure of General otic's tactics has occasioned a violent patriotic outburst in America, which is affecting President M'Kinley'a popularity. ToKto, July 18.

The Consular Courts have been abolished in Japan. The first trial before the Native Court will be that of an American charged with murder. Paris, July 19.

Eeterbafcy declares tbat Generals Gonse, Boisedeffre, and Billot knew that the bordereau on which Dreyfus was convicted was a forgery.

St. Petersburg, July 19

The Czar has decorated M. Gruitck, late German Minieter at St. Petersburg, and warned ex-King Milan to cease persecuting the Radicals. Melbourne, "Wednesday.

Medor, charged with the Eastern Markets murder, was acquitted on the ground of insanity. A man who has been arrested has been identified as the perpetrator of a number of recent jewel robberies.