TELEGRAPHIC.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN
(Per Electric Telegraph—Copvmgut.)
(Per Press Association.)
(Received 1.15 a.m., Aug. 12th.) FAMINE IN WALES. London, August 10. Provisions in South Wales are at famine prices. Meat is at 2s per pound. SHIPPING COMPANY. A petition to wind up the Colonial Union Shipping Company has been dismissed.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.
Brussels, August 11.
A procession of forty thousand marched through the streets of Brussels demanding universal suffrage.
JEWISH PERSECUTION. St. Petersburg, August 11. Hundreds of Jewish families in Southern Russia are fleeing from the country. Bands are roving about robbing and murdering the Jews. HELIGOLAND, Berlin, August 11. The populace of Heligoland greeted the Emperor with much enthusiasm. In taking formal possession he said that twenty years after the battle of Woerth they found themselves in a position to reincorporate, without a war, the last piece of German earth in an island which would harbour in safety the German navy against any enemies in the German ocean. All the English officials have left the island. SWAZILAND. Capetown, August 11. President Kruger states that England has agreed to permit the annexation by the Transvaal of Swaziland as soon as the affairs of that country are properly regulated.
(Special to Press' Association.) (Received 1.30 a.m., August 12th.) ROWING TROPHY, London, August 11. The Rev. E. Warre, headmaster of Eton College, has appealed to the university oarsmen to subscribe an eight-oar challenge cup to be presented for annual competition by the Australian universities.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR. Berlin, August 11,
The Kaiaer received an ovation in Heligoland. He described the cession of the island as a bloodless victory. It is asserted that the Emperor intends to visit Paris,
THE ARMENIAN REFUGEES. St., Petersburg, August 11. Russia welcomes the Armenian refugees, but declines to pledge herself to interfere on their behalf.
GAUTEMALA. Gautbmala, August 11. The rebels have been defeated.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6292, 12 August 1890, Page 2
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