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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9298, 27 July 1901, Page 4

Cable intelligence appears- on page two, Transvaal war hews on' page three,; telegraphic and other news on page six^ and Parliamentary on the seventh. The Railway Department advertise alterations in the time-table for the-i Hunt Club's races, A notice issued to the volunteers from headquarters notifies the discontinuance: of official mourning. The Sierra, with the incoming Sara Francisco mail, is due at Auckland on. Monday. Five hundred sheep died at Longreacfo (Queensland) recently as a result of eating too much after being starved in trucks on a long railway journey. A private cable message has been received in town to . the effect that the operation which Mr H. P. Cohen had toundergo in Sydney for a throat affection was "distinctly successful." The High School second football fifteen, playing four emergencies, were defeated this morning by the Grammar School first fifteen by 12 points to 3. A new geyser has broken out 'at thesite of the pink terraces which werecovered with mud by the Tarawera. eruption of 1887, and it is hoped that there is now a possibility of the lost terraces being restored. The popularity of the Adelphi Dramatic Company is still at its zenith, and last, night the drama "It Is Never Too LateTo Mend " was repeated to a large and very appreciative audience. The piece went well throughout, and the various characters were Suitably represented. Mr Charles Naylor as " Peier Crawley *' was inimitable, and his incidental songs were finely rendered and earned encores..' It not infrequently occurs that petty thieving is indulged in during the bustle and excitement' consequent on an outbreak of fire, but it is seldom that the offenders are brought to book for their delinquencies. A young man', a resident of Gore, had to pay dearly for an action of the above description arising out of* a recent fire in that town, being fined £5,. with costs amounting to £2, on a charge of stealing three damaged bicyclesi Mr Percy Pirani, eldest son of STr F. Pirani, M.H.R , who went to South Africa last December, is now occupyingthe position of assistant paymaster to> the Yeomanry. Mr Pirani, who was formerly a staff-sergeant in Kitchener's, Fighting Scouts, was two months in the - hospital with enteric fever, and. soon, alter his discharge received the appointment mentioned. An Australian Colonel was told by headquarters to expostulate with hismen for killing cheep. He spoke on parade :—" I've been told," he said, "to put my foot down upon this sheep-kill-ing, and I'm going to do it." Then (quietly): "Of course you know, men*, if a sheep attacks you I can't blame you should you in self-defence " A yell' of laughter drowned the rest, and fresh mutton remained plentiful in the camp. According to a witness who gave evidence in the Arbitration Court at Wellington, the seamen's strike which occurred in New Zealand about 1890 depleted the exchequer of the New Zealand Seamen's Union. Since then the variousbranches of the union in New Zealand had not been able to accumulate sufficient funds to recoup the amounts paid out on account of the . strike. They branches had bsen left in such a languishing condition that in 1895 the head office of the union at Dunedin determined to reorganise them. A sad sequal was attached to a wager made in the Fitzroy Hotel, Melbourne, the other day, when a man named Andrew Atkinson undertook to swim across the Yarra at South Yarra. A cab was called, and the bettor, with two friends, proceeded to the river bank, where Atkinson divested himself uf his elothiog and plunged into the icy cold water ofthe river. Before he reached half-way across he threw up his arms and disappeared,, his companions looking helplessly on. Deceased leaves a widow and three children. The concert given in St. schoolroom last evening was largely attended and proved in every way successful and enjoyable. The Rev. 0. L. Tuke presided and an excellent programme or vocal and instrumental selections was; presented. The .vocalists were the Misses-; Hunter, Mill, Macdouald, King, Macfarlane, and N. Williams ; Miss Edwardscontributed two mandolin solos; violin solos were played by Messrs A. Dixon and J. D. Briasco ; a pianoforte duet wasgiven by Miss Gold Smith aud MissHetley, and a pianoforte solo by MissGold Smith. The aocompaniments wereplayed by the Misses Hunter, Edwards,., Macdonald, Reynolds, M. Kennedy, and Cole, to the complete satisfaction of vocalists and audience alike. The hall' was tastefully decorated for the occasion 1 . Referring to the death of TrooperMcKechnie the Otago Daily Tmes s&ys : — "The death occurred at the Hospital yesterday mornipg at 9.20, of Trooper Louis McKechnie, who returned to the. colony with, the Fifth Contingent-. McKechnie was a Southlander, and hisfather formerly managed Benmore*. station. He went to Hawke's Bay with his parents some years ago, and enlisted from there in the Fifth. He was 24 yeara of age, and in his school dayß enjoyed a popularity that resulted hi his being madecaptain of the school football and cricketteams. His good-natured dispositionmade him popular with his comrades inthe contingent. His parents came down, to Dunedin to nurse him oh his returnfrom the war, and have been with hun constantly ever since in their labor of love, which, it is to be regretted, ha© terminated so sadly."

/ An anonymous contributor in the Nationul Mevicw, whose signature —"X" — has been affixed to some very instructive essays on foreign affairs, discusses in the latest number the great railway extension from Anatolia to Bagdad, the concession for which has been secured by a German company. He argues that by this construction the real focus of Asiatic policy will become the Persian Gulf. It is one of the biggest coups in German policy Witnessed during the Kaiser's restless reign, and the writer sees ground for British uneasines.*, because a new power will be brought to the gates of India. As he puts it, when the extension is completed, the first military Power in the world will have established itself at 10 days running from Berlin and four days' steaming from Bombay. But the appearance of Germany in this arena must be fraught wilh even more significance to Russia than to Great Britain. Her schemes in Persia, prospering hitherto, are likely to be challenged first.