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Hastings Standard, Volume V, Issue 1426, 17 January 1901, Page 4

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(Per United Preis Association — Coytijritjht. } JlQteiZ ASD FOREIGN. Xjondox, January 16. A Nihilist, Prince Naknchme, has been arrested at Nice. Documents found at his residence in Paris showed that he had connection with the plot to assassinate the Czar if he visited Nice, Other accounts declare that Nakachine is a swindler. New York, January 16. Dr. Pupin, of the Columbia University, claims to have solved the problem of ocean telephony, enabling communication between Tan Francisco and London. He admits that his method is enormously expensive. Paris, January 16. A debate has been opened in the Chamber of Deputies on the Religious Associations Prohibition Bill. THE TRANSVAAL. London, January 16. Lord Kitchener reports that several small parties of raiders are returning to the Orange river. Some Cape rebels accompanying the rebels have surrendered. the War Office is enlisting 5000 Yeomanry for a year or the duration of the war. A squadron of Johannesburg Mounted Rifles ambushed a party of Boers at Halfontein on Sunday, killing five, including Commandant Vanderbever. A sharp fight occurred at Murraysburg on the 11th instant. Six British were killed, seventeeu wounded, whilst five are missing, chiefly belonging to the South African Light Horse and Brabant's Hor?e. Lieutenant Keddell, of the New Zealand Rough Eiders, was severely wounded at Venter?dorp. Trooper M. Boyce, New Zealand Rough Riders, died of enteric at Pretoria. Surgeon Godfray, New Zealand Rough Rider, has returned to duty. A thousand Boer refugees who are detained in camp at Pretoria, Kroonstad, and Rhenoster Spruit declare that it is understood Mr Kruger is still in the Transvaal, while De Wet was besipgins Capetown, and G ueral Buller has been driven back iu Natal. A hundred and twenty German farmers bav« joined the Cape suburban guard. The Cape Cyclist Corps number 300. Mr Muhollanil, an American millionaire, has mvit'.'d Mr Kruger to visit and lecture in America. AUSTIULIAN. Brisbane, January 16. In view of the fact that there has been no case of plague for 32 days the port is to be declared clean of the plague on Monday. The city to-night is handsomely decorated and illuminated in honor of the Imperial troops and returned Queenslandecs.