CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11302, 21 December 1898, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

Pr«ss Ass-ciatian—By Telegraph— Cepyrighl

NEW BATTLESHIPS. LONDON, December 19. (Received Dec. 20, at 9.30 a.m.) -. ; Three hundred men are employed on 'overtime at. Portsmouth in order to: com--plete the new battleships London and Formidable, - ; COOL STORES AT MANCHESTER; The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company open'a-refrigerating store at Manchester in January.- . ' V THE VANTI-RIIuALIST MOVEMENT. V-(Received Dec. '20, 'at 1.-10 p.m.) r:. In" connection withVthe, anti-ritualistic movement in; England thej' Archbishops of York.'Dr Maclasan, D.D.. , has -forbidden

his clergy-to'interpolate! ceremonies of the church with services unauthorised in; the Book, of Common Grayer; <TheVßishop ;of "London, Dr; Creighton','* has' forbidden' the celebration of requiem, masses;and saintal banns in the church at;;Holborn,V'and prohibited the largely ;attended services in that 'church.■: '■ ■■' •''■'- •'''■'■']■..■':■■■::.■'';..'/"'''' '■_'<!' i ~,:

COULD NOT '1.^._l IT.WITH HER.

(Received ,Dp<..V2l,:Vat 0.45 "a-m.):' V'A miserly "English w.bmaii liamed'Coen has bequeathed .-:V£38,500 tb'.the,'London City Mission.

ANTI-ANARCHIST CONFERENCE.

ROME, December 20.

(Received Dec. 21, at, I a.m.) The Anti-Anarchist Conference has agreed . to a uniform police system of dealing with. . dangerous Anarchists, with a "Complete sys-. • tern of Home control instead of expulsion. ANTI-RUSSIAN MOVEMENT. ' ST. PETERSBURG, December 19. V (Received Dec.: 20, at 9.30 a.m.) , The anti-Russian'njovement in" Finland ■ has grown to such an extent that open • rebellion is threatened. The Finlanders havo . openly declined military, service beyond the borders of their own country.' The Czar is conferring with his Ministers on the subject.' FRENCH LOVE .FOR, GERMANY. BERLIN, December ;19. (Received. Dec. 20, at 9.30 a.m.) Tt v stated hero that immediately after the despatch of the Emperor William's famous telegram: to President ICruger congratulating him on' the success of the Boers : in. repelling, the Jameson, raid ; France offered England to enter; into, an alliance with Great Britain against Germany. CARICATURING THE EMPEROR. (Received Dec. 21, at 0.45 'a.m.) Heine, an artist,: has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for caricaturing the Emperor. AMERICA AND GERMANY. WASHINGTON, December 20. (Received Dec. 21, at 1 a.m.) America is taking steps to exclude adulterated food in retaliation for Germany threatening to exclude her meats. INFLUENZA AGAIN. An influenza epidemic is raging in New BUDDHISM. BOMBAY, December 19. ' (Received Dec. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) The Indian Government. have presented the' King of Si am with the cremated-'bones of Prince Guatama Siddhartha, founder of Buddhism. The remains' were 'discovered in Nepaul. Buddha is supposed. to,,have died 543 B.C. ' •'' AN IMPORTANT RAILWAY. (Received Dec. ,21, at 0.45 a.m.) The Merv railway has been completed to Khusk, within 95 miles of Herat.