CABLEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11197, 20 August 1898, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS

BKITJBH AND JfOKISIGIC

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

ALPINE: ACCIDENTS.

: LONDON, August 48. During the present summer there have been 40 fatal accidents among mountaineering parties ascending the Alps.., OBITUARY. The deaths are announced of General Michael Gregowyetch Tschernaiff, the distinguished Russian who took a, prominent part in the Crimean and Servian wars and in the extension of Russia's Asiatic Empire, aged 70; and of Sir William August Eraser, one of the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland, and author, aged 72: THE DRUCE CASE. , • Mrs Druce is making an effort to raise a fund to prosecute her son's claim to the dukedom .of Portland. She proposes to issue a quarter of a million's worth of bonds. PERSONAL. Colonel Gordon has been appointed to the Balloon Corps during the military manoeuvre's on Salisbury, Plain. COMMERCIAL. The .London' Chamber of Commerce will co-operate with the Agents-general in their endeavour to have the embargo on Australian leather by the War' Office removed. ) j The American visible supply of wheat is j estimated at 9,392,000,bu5he15.. WRECK OP. A.FRENOH CRUISER. I ••' -■-■■ PARIS, August 18. The French cruiser La Pcrouse was caught in a tidal wave at Madagascar and has been wrecked. General Galliene, the Governor of Madagascar, had a narrow escape from drowning. The erew j were rescued and the | guns and stores saved.'; i HALF A TOWN BURNT. j By a, fire half the town of Concarneau, in the Province of Finisterre, has been dcsI troyed. THE LATE TURCO-GREEK WAR. ATHENS, August. 18. All the officers of the staff of the Crown Prince of Greek during the Grasco-Turkisb. war are to be court-martialled for having left the military maps of the army at Larissa when they "fled from there. TURKEY AND CRETE. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 18. The Powers refuse to permit any more Turkish troops to be landed in Crete. Italy advised the Porte not to revert to the question again. The Sultan is furious at the limitations put to his authority. A NEW CABLE. ; > NEW YORK, August 18. A submarine cable from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Brest, in France, has been opened.' A RECORD WHEAT CROP. OTTAWA, August 19. The Canadian wheat crop is the biggest on record. The quality is excellent. MR RHODES AND PRESIDENT KRUGER. CAPETOWN, August 19. Mr Cecil Rhodes declared that he would never leave South Africa till he saw there was no risk of President Kruger dominating the country.