CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12040, 11 May 1901, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Associntion.-By Telegraph-Copyright. TDK CZAR TO VISIT EXGLAXD. LOXDOX, May 9. (Received May 10. at 9.9 a.m.) The Czar visits England at the. end of August, anil then )>itys a visit of sdveral wesks' duration to Darmstadt. A itUSSIAX LOAN. The Paris newspaper Matin says that tlie French hanks are issiliiijj a Russian lnaii nf 16 million.'! .sterling. .MR CARXKC.IK'S GIFTS. Mr .Andrew Carnegie has doubled his gift l'i tlie Knglish lion,■mil Sltol Institute for Ihi! purpose of establishing a metallurgical research scholaiship. TIIK UUIiON'R: PUGUK. The plague at Capetown is diminishing. The rat.s arc still dying in hundreds. riiOTOGIUPHIXG THB COMW. (Received May 10, at 10 a.m.) The three-tailed comet has been photographed at Mauritius. It is travelling north-west. The length of tho longest tail is II) degrees. THK fII'RMAN TARIFF. May 10. I Ueceived May 11, at 0.32 a.m.) The Agents-general consider the alteration in the German tariff will scarcely affect Australia. A bill has l>een submitted to the (Jerman Reichstag granling (iieat liritain ami (ho British colonies a favoured treatment until the end of 1903. TIIK TANTAUOX CASTLK. The mvni'i-s of the s .s. Taiitallmi Casllo, stranded on liobber Island, near Capetown, have no hope of saving her. A MAKrXK INQUIRY. 1!I'1!UX. May 9. (Ueceived May 10, at 10 a.m.) The inquiry into the grounding of i!ie German warship Kaiser (Friediicli disclosed tlnit the mishap mis due to the drifting ice shifting the buoy. INTERCOLONIAL. Prtss Association—By Telegraph-Copyright, A VATAh ACCIDKXT. KAWJOOIaiJO, May 10. (Received May 10, at 9.39 a.m.) John .M'Latigliliu. shift boss at the Iranhoc mine, a New Zcalander, was killed by a fall of earth. a ukasoxahu; j:xi>laxatio.v. SYUXKY, .May 10. (Received May 10, at 9.26 p.m.) With reference to the boat with the royal amis washed ashore on the liaiiytown Heach, west coast of Xeir Zealand, .Mr Kerry (Hie. owner of the Ariadne) states that he believes s lie belonged to the Ariadne, and was washed out of the davits during a gale when passing Cook Strait. He describes the boat as of lifeboat build, with watertight compartments, built almost, entirely of teak. A'LAIiOUR RKURUII'KR KILI.KD. HRISBANK, Miiy 10. (Received May 10, at 9.26 p.m.) James Arthur, a black labour'recruiter, was flint dead by the natives of Jlalaytii Island, ijuloinon group.