GENERAL ITEMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9299, 29 July 1901, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

United Press Association, By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Kccaived July 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 27. Maclaren takes A. .0. Jones, the Notts cricketer, to Australia. The cruisets Diadem and Niobe replace the St. George and Juno as escorts to the Ophir at St. Vincent, and escort her to Halifax, Canada. The wool sales closed firm with the highest prices of the series. The Medical Congress unanimously recommended the suppression of expectoration in public places, the notification of the existence of phthisis cases, the establishment of sanatoria, and the inspection of tuarke's and dairies. The next Congress meets at Paris. The Queeu Victoria memorial committee have accepted the design of Mr T. Brock, the sculptor, for a national memorial of the late Queen, and the proposals of Mr Aston Webb, the eminent a:ointect, for the treatment of the space in front of Buckingham Palace, where it will be erected. Offiiig to a Socialist paper publishing an incomplete summary of the German tariff, the Government published a compielp draft of the bill, which concedes the demands of the agrarians, and consider&b'y increases the duties of agricultural products in the commercial treaties. The minimum tariff on rye and oats is fixed at fifo>, wheat at five and a half, and barley at three marks per hundred kilogrammes , , Noumea, July 28. ■The barque Alexa was totally wrecked while loading guano at Surprise Island. The crew and passengers arrived at Paui safely.