British Government Tele phone.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1199, 26 February 1902, Page 2

British Government Tele phone.

London. February 24. The Government telephone sy-ten opened in London with two thousand subscribers.

New Yoke. February 26. Frmce Henry was officially welcomed. and then went aboard the I Hobenzollem at New 4 \'ork. Twentyfive thousand were on the pier cheering. Madrid. February 26. Most of the Republican-, a j majority of Socialists, and many Trade Unions, coldly welcomed the ; Barcelona emi-sane? sent to organ;-* ' a general strike in Spanish towns, j During the Barcelona riots, on* j hundred were killed and three hundred injnred I Five hundred have been arrested Cargoes are now being discharged at Barcelona, and some factories are i resuming. | Received this dee at 10..’} a.' London. Febru ry 25. | Pearce beat Barry over a unle an ! I a quarter on tbe Tyne for £SO a ! side, by ten lengths. Floating ice greatly mierfered with the rtee. Mr Morrison states tha' the Ru- ; sians decline to restore Shan ba kwun Nuichang railway to the civil government at Nuiehanu until ib international aduiinietrat >n of the j Tientsin cases. There are sixty three thousand Russian troops in’Manchnriv The Japanese assert they are able to land 150.000 at Manchuria rj » month. Madaid. February 25. General Weyler assured the’Senate that tranquility prevails id th* great r (•art of Spam. Rovi. February 25. The Italian Government has sum moiled to Color* forty thousand rail way workers attached to a mobile territorial army in order to pr. vent a contemplated general strite. A thousand auarchists have arrived.

A correspondent in Balclutha tele" graphs A lively settle took place m the Presbjtenati Church at Ral clulba an Sunday. A newly mar nod coupl, were .-pending ’ their first Sabbath m the chureii, when the mother of a young ladv who haJ been prevtonsly engaged to tuarry the bnd. groom attack, d bitu. at .1 a free fight in the church ensued, the minister, tha Rev Mr Currie, separating the car tit* ,j ihrow with difficulty.