CABLEGRAMS. INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2379, 5 October 1899, Page 16

CABLEGRAMS.

INTERCOLONIAL.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, September 26. A Reuter's telegram says that the mining companies on the Yukon goldfleld have petitioned the Canadian Government to redress their grievances. They pray for a reduction of the royalties. They recalled the disaffection which pecurred at Ballarat resulting from undue exactions. Dr Dick, of Eastbourne, drank a patient's medicine with a view to convincing her that it was rightly prepared, and died instantly. September 27. The French press denounce the scandalous parody on justice at Belgrade in connection with the trial and punishment of those concerned in the attempt to assassinate ex-King Milan. The Vienna press also denounce the sentenco passed. ' The number of vaccinations in Great Biitain from January 1 to June 30 are 28 j per cent, above the same period for 1893. The anti-vaccinationists are astounded. > September 28. The Venezuelan Arbitration Commission I has clo&ed after a sitting of 15 days. An j ! early award is expected. It is feared it | will not be wholly favourable to Great ! Britain. The Daily Telegraph is despatching pn ' expedition under the command of Liono 1 Decle, a well-known explorer and journalist, to explore the Cape to Cniro route, and ( report on its practical value and future prospects. i The Times, referring to the recent conference of naval commandants in Mcl- \ bourne, says that if Admiral Pearson had presided he would have prevented the piopagalion of evident fallacies. The papor considers that a nondescript form of inadequately trained volunteers is illusory as a defence. A separate colonial fleet, officered and manned by amateurs, would be expensive in peace and absolutely ineffectual i in war. The Daily Telegraph declares that the conference evolved a large and well considered scheme. Sir Edward Wingfield, Permanent Undersecretary to the Colonial Office, has been stricken with paralysis. The Hon. John M'Kenzie sailed for New Zealand by the Gothic. September 29. The Bank of Australasia profit is £66,282. The deposits amount to £13,276,304, the cash securities to £5,082,455, and the bills to £12,796,682. The damage to the Tekoa is greater than was expected. Temporary repairs, costing £4000, will be effected at the Falkland Islands, and she then proceeds to Monte Vfdeo. Her cargo is in good condition, and her machinery is working well. October 1. Alderman Newton has been chosen Lord Mayor of London elect. PARIS, September 27. Six Spanish girl toieadors and matadors, engaged in a bull fight at Bordeaux. bungled ir inflicting their blows, thus causing lingering deaths to the bulls. September 28. Telephonic communication between Paris and Berlin will be established in the spring. October 1. The Foureau Lamy expedition in the French Soudan, recently reported to have been annihilated, have reached the Oasis of Air. The party lost two of their members in an encounter with the natives. BERLIN, October 1. Dr Nan&en, speaking at the Geographical Congress, said he doubted the existence of a great Antarctic continent. BELGRADE, September 25. Gjura Knezevitch, an ex-fireman, "who attempted to shoot ex-King Milan in July last, has been sentenced to death. The other conspirators implicated in the plot received sentences of from five to twenty years' imprisonment. Knezevitch has been shot. Pasitch, the Radical leader, concerned in the same plot, has been pardoned. Tho trial is legarded as a mockery and the sentence .shameful. LISBON, September 27. The plague at Oporto has spread to ono ot' the neighbouring towns, which has bee.i declared within the infected cordon. BOMBAY, September 28. Lord Curzon is supporting a bill whhli has for its object the le.striction of the alienation of agricultural land in the Punjaub and the prevention of the ruin of the yeoman cla&ses. September 2£>. Four hundred persons were killed in Darjeeling, chiefly through landslips. Many persons were drowned on the plains. Queen Victoria has cabled her sympathy to the sufferers and the bereaved. During the earthquake at Darjeeling a missionary and six children who were kneeling at prayer were overwhelmed. Only one survived. NEW YORK, September 26. The Filipinos captured and burnt the Amei'ican gunboat Übaneta, on the Orani

River. One officer and nine sailors ara missing. September 27. " Admiral Dewey reached New York two! days before he was expected. He received a hearty unofficial welcome. He ridiculed the idea of bis candidature for the Presii dency. October !.• A naval parade was held on the Hud-! son River, from below New Jersey City, to opposite General Grant's tomb at Riverside, overlooking the Hudson. Admiral Dewey was present, and had a tremendous ovation. News has been received that the steamer Montaya was burned at Magdalena, Columbia. Thirty passengers are reported to" have perished. WASHINGTON, September 28. . New York is extraordinarily excited over the arrival of Admiral Dewey. The authorities here credit the German | reports from Samoa that the Mataafans : are restless, and that they may Jiave been j incited to rebel. OTTAWA , September 29. The Dominion liner Scotsman has stranded in the Belleisle Strait. -.'-Two \ hundred and fifty of her passengers have been rescued. October^!. Eleven of the Scotsman's passengers ' were drowned. There are complaints that I the crew showed insubordination. I Twenty-tbree of the Scotsman's crew have been arrested at Montreal on a charge of looting the passengers' effects, i CARACAS, September 29. S The Venezuelan insurgents, under General j Castro, have again defeated the Government troops under General Andrane, the President, killing 1500. The insurgents have now invested Caracas.

MELBOURNE, September 26. During the presentation of some tableaux at the Mechanical Hall, Warrnambool, the scenery on the stage caught fire. A stampede ensued, and several people "were slightly injured. A constable extinguished the fire. There was little damage done. All attempts to extract the bullet embedded in the brain of Dr Eraser, who was shot by his wife, have proved fruitless.. His condition is hopeless. September 27. A Geelong farmer named Dancey, aged 75 years of age, had arranged to marry yesterday, bub he failed to appear. He waa found hanging dead in a shed. September 28. The Court of Marine Inquiry has dismissed the charge of careless navigation against Captain Forbes (of the Edina) in connection with the Excelsior-Edina collision. September 29. New Sou tli Wales, Queensland, and Vie-> toria have nominated Sir A. Clarke (Victorian Agent-general) and Sir Julian Salomons (New South Wales Agent-general) as their representatives on the Pacific Cable Board. * September 30. The weather is very cold, and it is snowing in various districts. The thermometer registers 38deg. October 2. Dr Fraser has considerably improved,' and the doctors, who consider his a most remarkable case, believe he will live. SYDNEY, September 26. . Mr Wise has been re-elected for Ashy field by a majority of 21. Giblett, charged with the murder of Williams, at Ultimo, was found guilty of maa« slaughter. | Jt the inquest on the Quay disaster a; verdict of accidental death was returned. The evidence showed that no person waa apparently lesponsible for the inspection of staging. The Government presented the Japanese seamen who assisted in the rescue of the children with 2gs each. September 27. The steam collier Currajong collided with and sank the ketch Lansdowne. The cook of the latter had a thrilling escape. He was carried to the bottom, escaping through the gap made by the "steamer in the ketch's hull. The ketch was insured in the Nai tional Insurance office for £1000. New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria ballot for two representatives on the the Pacific Cable Board. New South Wales has nominated Sir J. Salomons, the Agent-general. Frederick Giblett, an accountant, 35 years of age, who shot at andjrilled Henry E,rnesfc Williams, and then shot at two young wo- 1 men named Absalom, at whose house Williams was a visitor at the time, lias been sentenced to 16 j'ears' imprisonment on" ai charge of manslaughter. September 28." The Australian Circus has purchased the' lion presented by Mr Rhodes to President/ Kruger, which the latter returned. The man Tudor has been acquitted of the charge of the murder of his infant afc Toronto. The Governor, Earl Beauchamp, at Hi banouet, referring to the Dreyfus trial*

£aid that it was all very well to speak of ff liberty, equality, and fraternity " in BTran.ee, but there certainly was not any freedom or equality, as the soldier was 'distinguished from the man, and there was no fraternity as they excluded the Jew. The trial was a hideous travesty of justice. September 30. Miles, who was sentenced to 18 months for attempting to wreck a train, has beenreleased under the First Offenders Act. The Government entomologist is surprised &f New Zealand condemning New South ftVales citrus fruits. It is believed that the supposed red spider is a brown mite, which is useful in feeding upon scale eggs, and it is in no way injurious to the fruit. October 1. The weather is bitterly cold. Heavy snow has fallen on the Western highlands. A sailing boat, with eight persons on hoard, capsized in a squall at Rose Bay. .Two men named Roach and O'Hiilloran and Roach's son and a boy named M'Mahon were drowned. The others were rescued much exhausted. October 2. The .revenue returns for the quarter show an 'increase of £18,000 compared with the corresponding quarter of 1898. Mr William Aitken, of Messrs Aitken land Scott, millers, a prominent bowler, and a gentleman well known in New Zealand, is dead. The O'Halloran drowned in the boat accident was a boy. From Noumean news to hand it is reported that a Presbyterian missionary and some teachers have been murdered at Tanna, but no details have come to hand. NEWCASTLE, October 2. The coal returns for nine months -show a falling off as compared with the same period of last year of 51,000 tons in the intercolonial trade, and of 32,000 tons for the United States. An increase took place in the trade to the Philippines and Sandwich Islands of 51,000 tons. The South American trade continues to expand. Although the gross export decreased 33,000 tons, the value increased by £13,500. New Zealand took 12,000 tons less this year than last. ADELAIDE, September 27.' The Household Suffrage Bill has passed the Legislative Assembly. October 2. Canon Scott, a prominent churchman, is dead. The revenue returns for the quarter show an increase of over £40,000 on the corresponding quarter of last year. The weather is most unseasonable. Snow is falling in many parts of the colony, and in some localities where it has not fallen for 30 years. PERTH, September 27. ■ In the Legislative Assembly the Premier delivered the Budget Speech. The year ended with a deficit of £247,000, but this had been reduced to £160,000, and it was expected that the balance would be wiped off by the end of the year. The expenditure showed a large decrease compared with ,the previous year. The estimated revenue for next year was £317,000 more than last, and the expenditure would be reduced by a similar amount. The colony was never in a better position. There was no real depression, but what they had, perhaps, suffered from was the over-capitalisation in jWest Australia. The gold exported last year amounted in value to £3,991,000 ; the imports were £31 and the exports £29 ■10s per head of the population, or nearly double those of any other colony. The railways were paying 4 per cent, on the capital invested. The total indebtedness of the colony was about ten millions and ahalf; and the total output of gold was nearly 15 millions. BRISBANE, October 1. The complete return of the referendum Shows that the following was the result : — rYes, 38,488; no, 30,996. As soon as the federal address to the Queen is disposed of, the Opposition and the Labour party will join forces and attack the Government policy. October 2. 'A safe, containing-* £80 in notes and (gold, was stolen from the Adelaide Shipping Company's office. A man named Cairns, the robber, was tracked, and the anoney recovered. The damage by the destruction of 15 business premises at Kiama by fire is &7000. There was fine weather for the annual 'eight hours' demonstration. The commission of inquiry into the •Police department had the Gatton murder cases under review. M'Neill expressed his fcelief that Michael Murphy was coaxed and not forced into the paddock where fthe murder of himself and his two sisters ffras perpetrated. He had his own suspicion as to who committed the murders, jbut gave no particular reason. He complained about the police woirying^him over $lie affair.

HOBART, October 1. i The weather is very cold. Hail and snow have fallen in many districts.

NOUMEA, September 26.

The steamer Tanais, from Sydney, has been towed into here. She broke her shaft 200 miles "from port.