GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4734, 16 August 1902, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BOER BOXERS. LONDON, August 11. The “Daily Mail” states that an Afrikander boxing team of prisoners of war at Colombo, including Jiin.vilollowa.v, bus asked permission to tour England and America to give an exhibition of pugilism. AN OVERCROWDED TRANSPORT. LONDON. August 14. The authorities disembarked five hundred homeward-bound troops at Capetown from the transport Aurauia, owing to tho vessel being overcrowded. Mr Seddon is indignant that administrative economy indirectly sacrificed lives on the Drayton Grange and the Britannic. AN INFLAMMATORY SPEECH. LONDON, August It. Mr William O’Brien, Nationalist member for Cork, made an inflammatory speech at Galway, in tho course of which he suggested tho boycotting of a shopkeeper who had evicted a widow. A BARONET'S CREDITORS. LONDON, August 14. Sir Robert Peel has paid fifteen shillings in the pound to all the creditors in his' three failures. AN UNOPPOSED ELECTION. LONDON. August It. Sir William Walrond, who vacated Ids seat for Tiverton on accepting office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has been rcvdected unopposed. CORONATION SERVICES. LONDON, August 14. At the request of Colonel Cameron, Commander of tho Australian troops, the authorities arranged special services for the colonial Coronation Contingents on Sunday. REVIEW OP INDIAN TROOPS. LONDON, August 1A King Edward reviewed tho Indian troops now in London in the garden of Buckingham Palace, iu a similar way to the colonial contingents. His Majesty made a felicitous speech, and the Prince of ‘Wales presented Coronation medals to the troops. BAD WEATHER AT SEA. SYDNEY, August IS. Wild weather is prevailing along the coast, and interfering with shipping movements. (Received August 16. 0.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, .August 15. Tho Whangnpe, from the Bluff, experienced tempestuous weather. She lost 590 sheep, those stowed below suffering the most. A FATAL EXPLOSION. SYDNEY, August 15. —b v the Chinese mail states that the Chinese cruiser Kiachi was blown up near Nanking through tho explosion of her magazine. Only two out of a crew variously oxtimated at from 150 to 250 escaped^ OUTBREAK OF BERI-BERI. PERTH, August 15. The barque Collingrrood has arrived hero from Madagascar with all the crew suffering from heri-beri. Three died on tho voyage.