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Otago Witness, Volume 26, Issue 2419, 26 July 1900, Page 13

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j- ."^ * LONDON, July 10. j..\'" the Sydney runner, finished f '\ 100 Metres Championship at unird. ia 3vly 17. ! Earis • *"• t - "" tue retention of ilie- Adin 4 % d tllBy a ff O rd. tKe- BeMvilfe . eXßerieaced throughof the- increase ' America. The therareat' heat is , \ odeg in the out Europe and 95deg at Paris, cane mometer registers t . -. There are man] shade at London,. , \ , te( j_ 104deg in New Yoxki, . vec l t o ratify th cases of sunstroke' repoi Great Britain is,prepa. i ading for An: Hague Convention.. ; «, , been bad! The stea-mer Indraghiri. Ig , : c.h docks.

tralia and- New Zealand, ha, . i Bank for damaged by fire at the Woolw \ .'-.s to be 1 The balance sheet of the"Unioi-. \ 069,246, the half-year, shows the deposl> „ The £15,793,602, cash- investments £s^^ , and bills and securities £15,412,707, . > ent directors report that the entire reserve \ % '' been" invested in Imperial GovernnV \ k \ securities. " ■ __„->.'">

, July 18. " . The Congregational Church Committee have unanimously selected the Eev. John. Wilkins, of the^ Old Kent 'road Church, Marlborough (? London), to succeed the Key. ■ Joseph barker ,at Auckland. Mr Wilkins, has taken -a, week to consider- the c .%M^3Sll P^^fe^cep^it,!, „-- New South Wales Bftimm&r^ -wan *■!»» " ann^j- •r^n^. '~,<^' -

don Championship easily. Time, smin a " 40 l-ssec. A. E. Trott secured his hundredth wicket a for the present season while playing in the match Gentlemen v. Players at Lords. Stan. Rowley rah in the 60 Metres Championship at the Olympian Games at Pfris. _ Mr Goschen has consented to the appointmerit Of a committee of inquiry hi connection with tlie_ adoption of the Belleville boilers by the Admiralty, hoping thereby to allay the uneasiness and secure an impartial verdict with regard to the boilers. For the week's Conference of the Christian Endeavourers, now being held here, 20,000 delegates are present, among thSSH being 5000 from America' and Australia. The Rev. C. "M. Sheldon, of America, is also present. The Bishop of London was among those ■ who bade the' delegates welcome. ' July 19. Obituary : Richard Daft, the well-known Notts cricketer ; aged 65 years. The scheme propounded for the reconstruction of the Orient Steam Ship Company has been adopted. A London cable states that the bank rate of discount is 4 per- cent. The price of silver is 2s 4 3-16 d' per oz. Mr Wyndham, yielding to the of members of the House of Commons, abandoned the clause in the Volunteer Bill requiring men to serve abroad.

me uovernment x3lx 31 ' 0 ? 086 t0 ', gr-^iw j j £200,000 in aid of' the C4olcl Coast expedi- | t tion. ' ! i July 201 Sir James T. Chance, baronet, of Birmingham, has given £50,000 to 'the- Bir- 1 £ mingham University. f ( July- 22. At the National Rifle Association, meeting the Queen's Prize was won by Private , Ward, of the Devonshire Regiment,, with ascore of 341 points. Portugal has deposited the amount of the Delagoa Bay railway arbitration awarst ; with ' a Paris bank. - st. Petersburg; July is. The Shah of Persia, who is visiting Russia, was officially' welcomed at St. Petersburg. CAIRO, July 21. Rabah, an Arab Sultan, who escaped after the capture of his citadel at Kuma Mountain by.. tlie French in tha Western Soudan, has-been killed in an encounter with the French. at Shari River.