YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 22 January 1903, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

ivmao vsmsb ißsocanoK'3 CAPETOWN, Yesterday. •• Nine Kaffirs, three Indians, and one European ate suffering from plague at Durban. LONDON, Yesterday. The Rugby Union Committee recommend the New Zealand # footbailers to postpone their visit till September, 1904, owing to fixtures for next season being already arranged. Bishop Webber is stronger, and resting better. • . • The first series of colonial wool sales for the current year opened with brisk bidding, and prices ruled from par to ten per cent^ advance on latt closing sales ; 9665 bales* a good selection of medium and inferior, were offered. There was a good attendance, deluding. many Americans, add spirited competition far all sorts. Compared with the closing sales in ;he December series, Merino? were unchanged, merino lambs advanced five per cent, fine crossbreds advanced five, medium ten, and lambs ten per cent. . . , , The King sent a Marconigraph to President Roosevelt reciprocating his greetings, and wishing America every The King and Queen have received the Duke and Duchess of Orleans at Buckingham Palace. Mr Balfoar is convalescent. Comol;ai\}&t92g. Copper on tpot is at £03 G«, and at three montha £53 10s a ton. Silver is at Is 9 13-I6d an ounce. The total qnantily of wheat and floor afloat f«>r the United Kiogdoai « 2, 60,000 quarters, and for the Continent 865,0 0 quarters. Share*: Anstraliau aud New Zealand mOIWb %IIiNNA, .Yeslcrilay. Austria is sending a fleet to the Adriatic and Levant to impress upon Turkey the necessity of Macedonian reforms. ADELAIDB YtJster day. A cellarman, named Castle, was drowned in a vat of stout at the Walkeville Brewery. It is supposed | that he was overcome by fumes while testing. Mfc , LBOURNET yesterday. At a joint sitting of the two State Houses there was selceted on # the first ballot Mr Robert Reid, Minister for Edncation, a Freetrader, as sueessor to Sir F. Sargood in the Senate. The choice of a Freetrader came as a surprise. SYDNEY> yesterday. 1 R. Cavill, at the Newcastle baths, swam 120 yards in lmin. 12 l-10th sees, a world's record. The Cycling Carnival is concluded.. There waß great interest in the International Championships, and the attendance: waa twenty-five. thousand. The match-: between Gudgeon and Walker/ to decide who should meet Major Taylor, resulted in a win for Gudgeon, who, makiDg a phenomenally fast .finish, beat Walker by a length and a quarter, in 2mm. 3 2-stn sees. Gudgeon then tackled laylor. In the first event, the mile, he paced Taylor, and won by three lengths, in, 2niin. 2 2-sth sees. In the second event, the mile unpaced, Taylor won by a similar distance, in 3min. 12 3-sth sees. The winner held Gudgeon easily, and displayed magnificent form. He received an ovation. Taylor also won the Taylor Plate, Walne being second, and Walker third. Chalmers ran second in the Taylor qualifying heat. At the wool sales good classes were very keen, and prices were firm. Scoured sold to 25d— a record for the AUCKLAND, Yesterday. During the past three weeks tho gold returns from the mines of Auckland district reached the total of £51,866. This completes the returns for 1902, and the corrected figures for that period show the value of bullion won to have been £803,094, an increase over 1091 of 4J44,494. WELLINGTON, Yesterday. The following are tho winners of the Queen Scholarships at Victoria College :— Arthur Saudel, Napier, 1671 marks; James Russell, Ormondville, 1587; Eric Lyoh, Wellington, 1559 ; Nornia Fobelberg, Mount Cook, Wellington, 1536 ; Helen Hunt, Mount Cook, Wellington, 1489 : Alfred Paddick, Mount CooK, Wellington, 1477. A deputation waited on the Premier to-night to again complain of the manner in which the Defence Force RiUe Association's programme for the annual shooting contest has been drawn up, and also of the quality of weapons supplied. The deputation represented the rifle clubs of the district. It was pointed out that members were debarred from competing in many events on the programme, and out of a prize list of .£992 a sum of £779 was reserved for tho Volunteers. Mr Seddori, in reply, deprecated the idea that the Defence Department wished to discourage rifle clubs, on the contrary it desired to give them every reasonable encouragement. At the same time the Government regarded the Volunteer movement as of paramount importance. The sole reason for the Government taking over the Rifle A ssociation meetings was to encour age volunteering^ He promised to consider certain details of the programme for the forthcoming meeting. INVIORGARGILL, This Day. The 4dlegatas bare fixed on Wednesday for the weekly halat holiday io In : vercarjtill, an amendment in favour of Saturc'iy beinjr rejected. MANGAWJSKA, „,This I)ay ; . A lad, aged five; yearfli ,a-. aon, of Mi MonrlbEd^drOhin^aiti^ Was drowned today by falling into a well. „ • A four-year old spn of Mr.HaßaOj,. i Temoehau, waßa crushed to death to-daj by the wheel of a wool waggon paßßin^ over him. CHRISTGHURCQ, TMs Day. A peculiar burglary ti aaid to have been perpetrated in this city on Monday night* wh«nthe eafeon the-premfßeroj a- leg^l.firm was- opened lyf^ -keys alleg»a to have been :ti6enlroin H* clothea id the only occupant of \ha preoilseß^ Xtie cations fact in connection with tlie affair if that there are no signs of the premiaeß having been broken into, and th€ occupant understood to have locked the dooia which are fitted with latent looks, that could not ba picked. A sain of money under .£o was taken out of tb€ cash box in the safe, bufc the bank bpofc and o'iequea were untouched. The ca h rox was feand in tho yard adjoining the premises said to h%vo been i robbed.

In connection with the cablegram stating iliat Prince Lonzany had left bis wife, the Piincess Stephanie, bwng dissatiaßtd with her extravagance and h.s anibiguous poaition (a Bt*l*™?"*?*?^*dtnied), it will be renleiubered I bat the princeßs figured very coaspie iou?ly m COBnectionwith the ceplorable sceDelhaC arose duridg the funeral of tho Queen of the Belgians beUeen the King aud the Princess, When the King entered the chapelle ardente he either motioned the Princess Stephanie to lea re it at ouce, or sent word to her that he could not enter until she had left. This continuan. Eof a fdmily qaarrel in the presenci of death produced a painfnl impressidQ throughout l&elginm, not least among the class most likely to be demoted to the dynasty. .The trouble arosa because Princess Stephanie years after the destruction oi her happiness as Crown Princess of Austria-Hun^ gary, foand consolation in marrying an B ungarian nobleman. Bounties on the French system have not benefited the g.eat French pany, if; one may jndge from the, following ia the " Shipping World " It » asked what is the positottof the Meßsagenea Company ? A f ter increasing its capi tal itccount by to meet the Govern uent'B requirements n respect of mail services between France and South a.merica it is obhged to confess (a) that tho contract entails a lo3S (the deßciency m IPOI being Jei20,000) ; (b) that it miU probably not tender next year for the contract, hnt will (c) Rive up the passenger tramc of the South American line and adapt itself to the conditions of the law of last April by fifteen flow steamers, and simply carry cargoes in a leißrtrely way, and it«c fat on the bounty; Here wo have an objpct-lesfeon to show us that a Government contract miybe a very bad thing for shipowners, and the French bounty system injurious to the commerce of the ountry.