CABLEGRAMS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
£ jress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
A BY-ELECTION,
LONDON, December 23. (Received Dec. 24, at 8.56 a.m.)
Mr Worse ley Taylor (Conservative) has been elected for Blackpool in the place of Sir Matthew While Ridley, raised to the peerage. TUB WRECK OF THE GNELSEAN. The wreck of the German frigate Gneisean is officially ascribed to the sudden and Kiipid strengthening of the gale, which caused a breakdown of her machinery. STORMY CHRISTMAS WEATHER. Westerly tempests are raging throughout Great Britain, and a number of vessels have been stranded. In Scotland houses have been unroofed and buildings wrecked, whilst there are .a number, of fatalities reported.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
NEW YORK, December 23.
(Received Dec. 24, at 8.56 a.m.)
Mac Donald, a disbursing clerk, who wn.s lately reduced by Morris, the auditor to the African (':) War Department, shot Morris dead. The murderer then committed suicide. OBITUARY. December 24. Field-marshal Count yon Blumerithal. [Count yon Blumenthal, Chip* of the Staff of the Prussian Army, was born in 1810, and has had n. distinguished military career, being recognised as 'one of the most distinguished strnte s ists of modern Germany. For his services in the Austrian war of ISGG ho received the Onklenf of Iho Order Tour le Merite, otir of the mresi distinctions in tlio army. He. wag Chief of the General Staff in the Franco-Prus-sian war. and when the Fmoerov presented 111™ Iron Cross to the Crown Prince, the latter said the snmr- distinction was tine to General yon Biunientlinl. He was made Field Marshal in 18S8.]
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS,
ROME. December 24.
(Received Dec. 25. at 1.15 a.m.)
Italy favours the snsrsjestion that tlie various countries should co-operate with C4prmanv and Britain in despatching an Antarctic expedition.
THE KHARTOUM RAILWAY OPENED.
CAIRO. December 24.
(Received Doc. 25. at 1.15 a.m.) The Wndv Haifa-Khartoum railway has b;en opancd for traffic. •
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11925, 25 December 1900, Page 5
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