HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 8562, 17 August 1904, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electhio Ibljsokaph.—Corraicm.) (Per Press Association.! Received August 17, at 7.37 a.m. London, August 16. Principal Gurney, of Durham College of Scieuce, was killed in climbing the Alps. Constantinople, August 16. Colonel Pitchoff, with 450 revolutionaries at Vadena, TuTkey, is projecting an insurrection Received August 17, at 8.10 a.m. Park, August 16. A project for a railway from Saint Jervois to the summit of Aiguille Gouter, Monrt Blanc has been sanctioned. Received August 17, at 8.52 a.m. Berlin, August 17. In connection with the rebellion in German. South-east Africa, General Von Trotha had two! days' severe fighting, principally in a thick bush. He captured Hamaraki, and drove the Herreros from several position with great loss. Five German officers and 10 men were killed, and 6 officers and 60 men wounded. I>ondoffl, August 16. The Daily Chronicle reports that 15 negroes were lynched in one batch at Statesboro, Georgia, for murdering whites. Received August 17, at 8.40 a.m. London, August 16. The Gulf Line steamer Carpentaria has been launched;. She has refrigerating capacity of 300,000 cubic feet. Pekln, August 16. _ There is a recurrence of the rebellion in South China, and the movement in Kwansi is rapidly spreading.