CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 13

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AKD FOREIGN.

LONDON, April 1

Forty thousand enumerators are engaged collecting the census returns in England and Wales. The anti-clerical disturbances continue at Barcelona. The crowd stoned the police, who fired back, injuring many. The revenue of the United Kingdom for the year ended March shows an increase of £10,it00.896 over the corresponding revenue of the previous year, of which over eight millions is exhibited by the income tax. The death is announced of Sir John Stainer, the eminent musician ; aged 61 years. Three hundred men of the West African regiment, Kumas'si, who deserted because they were not relieved as promised, have arrived at Cape Coast Castle. One hundred and twenty troops have been despatched to Accra. April 2. The Kumassi deserters have been sent home\o Sierra Leone. The failure to relieve them was due to the Gambia operations. [Sir John Stainer, professor of music at Oxford, was bom in 1840, and m 1847 became a chorister m St. Paul's Cathedral, which he left m 1856 for St. Michael's College, Tenbury, where he was organist for three years. He then became organist at Magdalen College, Oxford, which appointment he retained until his removal to St. Paul's m 1872. In 1881 he succeeded Mr Sullivan as principal of the National Training School, London, and m 1882 became inspector of music in the elementary schools in succession to Dr Hullah. Besides being one of the greatest organists of his time, he also gained distinction as a composer of church music. His oratorio " Gideon " was produced with success in 1875, and in 1878 his cantata " The Daughter of Jaims " was performed at the Worcester Festival. Among his writings are '" A Theory of Harmony (1871) and " Music of the Bible (1879). Together with Mr W. A. Barrett, he edited a " Dictionary of Musical Terms " (1876), and wrote with Mr G. P. Bevan, " A Handbook to the Cathedral of St. Paul " (1883) ] Russia has •declared -the whole of West Australia to.'be infected with plague. The Asarylebone Committee have approved joi the county club captain's action in regard to throwing, but they recommend that the suspension of the bow lers be postponed' for one season. | Parliament has adjourned till Thursday. 18th inst. The House of Commons, by 155 to 72, read a second time a bill rendering reappointment to positions under the Crown [ unnecessary on the demise of the Crowe,

A bill was al>n read n second time permitting local authorities to ctinstiuct crenidtonums.

April 3. The ringleader of the Kumassi deserters has been shot.

A royal warrant has increased the Com-mander-in-Chief's pay to £5000 a ye ir.

Mi* F. R. Hams (C), member for Monmouth, has been unseated on an election petition.

Obituary: Mi D'Oyley Carte, the -wellknown impresario.

It is alleged that the forgciy of dock warrants in London has caused six banks to lose an aggregate of £200,000.

M. Delcas-e, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrives at St. Petei'-burg on the 20th.

A German loan of 15 millions sterling, bearing 3 per cent, interest, was covered 15-fold.

The Express states Mr R. C. Lclimann has voluntarily retired from the editorship of the Daily News in favour of Mi H. W. Massingham.

The White Star liner Celtic, of 20,880 tons, has been launched at Messrs Harland and Wolff's yards at Belfast. An innkeeper named Barnsley was fined for selling arsenical beer. The poison wa3 introduced through the material used for drying the malt. Aguinaldo, the Philippine leader, has sworn allegiance to the United States. The exploring ship Gauss, built for the German expedition to the Antarctic, was launched at Kiel yesterday. An earthquake on Sunday in southeastern Europe destroyed a lighthouse at Cape Kaliakra. An earthquake occurred in south-eastern Hungary yesterday, and damaged a number of houses. Count Yon Bulow had an interview with Signor Zanardelli, the Italian Premier, at Verona. April 4. Zanardelli cordially reiterated to Count Bulow Italy's desire to maintain her traditional friendship with Germany. April 5. Switzerland has extradited Jaffer, the anarchist and accomplice of Bresci, the murderer of King Humbert. The defender of the America Cup has been christened Constitution. . France is creating three bases on the Cape route to the Far East. Fresh grants have been made for 10^ million francs for the headquarters of the :fleet cruisers at Dakar, Senegal ; 10 millions for a second base with a dry dock at Diego, Suarez, Madagascar ; and three millions for further works at Saigon. H. E. Fry, a director of the Smelting Corporation, and R. H. Evan, the smelter, ' have been, arrested on a charge of having forged warrants for gold. They are believed to be the principals in the alleged frauds of ore on the banks. It is reported that the Smelting Corporation is ruined. Shares are being offered at a shilling each. Two men, named Alfred Ciawshaw Bailey and Destedmgh, have been committed for trial on a charge of fraud in connection with the Westralian Development Company and subsidiary companies. There are complaints in the newspapers that experiments being made by the Admiralty with submarine boats are confined to boats of the Holland pattern exclusively. Lord Esher, in a letter to the Lord Mayor, states that a quarter of a million will be required to provide a worthy national memorial to the late Queen He suggests that a special appeal be made to the nation on May 24. April 6. Fifty thousand pounds have been subscribed to the Mansion House fund for the national memorial to the late Queen Victoria. 4 No volunteer manoeuvres will be held this year at Easter. The Government are arranging large camps for a week in August. Lord Salisbury is better. The medical attendants have stopped the issuing of bulletins as to tlie .state o[ his health. Loid Salisbury has started for the Rivicia. April 7. M. Sarafott and other members of the Macedonian Committee have been arrested at Sofia Mr Allen S ton eh am has presented the City of Perth with a statue of the late Queen by the celebrated sculptor F. J. Williamson. Owing to the influence of the electric trams it has been found necessary to remove the magnetic instruments fiom the Kew Observatory. ahe baique Havfruen. bound from Norway to Sydney with a cargo of timber, has been towed into Calis (?) waterlogged and dismasted. The crew are safe. The Anarchists of Geneva are protesting against the extradition of Jaffer. the accomplice of Bresci, who murdered King Humbert. They have stormed the Russian Consulate and destroyed the Russian escutcheon, besides openly insulting the Italian consul. PARIS, April 5. A hasty operation had to be performed on M. Waldeck Rousseau, the Premier, for a growth under the tongue. He is pro-gress-ing favourably. BERLIN, April 5 The German battleship Kaiser Frederick was set fire 'to owing to concussion, and the pumps were employed pumping water into her. The fire was extinguished after two hours' work.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 5.

The Russian Censor has interdicted the publication of the portrait of Count Leo

Tolstoi, v, ho was recently excommunicated by the Iloh Synod.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 1

The eaithqvike at Constantinople occurred durmg ths annual Mohammedan festival of Bairam The high officials MPie pacing before the Sultan's throne -when portions of the ceiling and ch.indelieis fell. causmtT a panic liie mu&icians iii&hed to the°docr>. The Sultan rose, but again repeated himself, and ordered the ceremony to pioceed.