CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11419, 10 May 1899, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press: Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE DUKE OF YORK. .: .' ; LONDON, May 8. The Duke of York is suffering from a slight chill, but is improving:* The Prince of Wales has visited him twice daily since Friday. . ■ ./."•. * SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS. Achbishops, bishops, peers, members of the House of Commons, and leading Nonconformists are uniting in protest against Sunday editions of the London Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, which have been brought out as.seven-day papers.- v ''• COUNTERVAILING DUTIES. ; ■■ ' ' ■■'■.'. May 9. ; (Received May 10, at 1 a.m.) A Blue Book just published shows that Mr-Chamberlain prompted the adoption of countervailing duties in India oh behalf of the sugar industry in. Mauritius. A.BOON TO IRELAND. A. bill providing for the creation of a department, of agriculture, industries, and technical instruction in Ireland, at a cost of £160,000 per annum, has been read a first time in the House of Commons. FLIGHT OF A TURKISH MINISTER, j CONSTANTINOPLE, May 9. . (Received May 10, at 1 a.m.) .Missak Effendi,. Turkish Minister at the Hague, fled to Paris, being indignant because he was not appointed representative of Turkey at the Peace Conference, the reason lor the slight being that he was an Armenian. The Porte is dismayed at the action, fearing Missak will join the revolutionaires MASSACRED BY INDIANS. / NEW YORK, May 8. Indians massacred 120 Bolivian troops who had;been sent to quell a rising amongst them.