TELEGRAPHIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3551, 25 April 1901, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Biun.-H 8c FOREIGN United Press Association —l'or Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.23 a.m., April 2-1 th. MUUDKK OF MISSIONARIES. LONDON, April 2-1. The Rev. .1 i>,xe[>h Parker, iu opening the Congregational Union's Assembly, deplored the reported massacre of Messrs Chalmers iunl Tompkins in> Mew Guinea. Ho eulogised Mr Chalmers as u truly great missionary. CRIMINAL LlliKL. All- I'. A. McUugh, of North Leitrim, lias been sentenced to six months' imprisonmeHlt| for criminal libel, published in his paper, tho "Sligo Champion." The libel consisted of an allegation of jurypacking against the Crown Law olliet rs. A STKAMER WRECKED. Tho steamer Talier (sic) lias been wrecked at Mauritius, and 36 lives lost. (Possibly tho French steamer Sahel is meant.) Received 9.11 a.m., April 24tb. AQUATICS. Spencer Gollan, Tom Sullivan (ex-New Zealander), and George Towns (ex-Aus-tralian), scullers, rowed from Oxford to

Putney, 104 miles, in 13 horn's 56 minutes, establishing a long distance record. The journey was made in a 35 feet treble sculler, recently built for Gollan with a view of breaking the Thames records. Received 10.30 a.m., April 24th. STEEL AND IRON WORKS. British capitalists are spending £lO,000,000 to establish steel and iron works at Sault Sainte Marie, in Canada, to employ 10,000 hands. CONTEMPT OF COURT. The offence of Mr McHugh, member for North Leitrim, was publishing the names of the Protestant jurymen in connection with the conviction of land-leaguers on charges of conspiracy and intimidation. LIBERAL DONATIONS. Mr Andrew Carnegie gives £45,000 to endow libraries at Vancouver, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Windsor, and Ontario. ALLEGED FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY. Monsigmor Guerin, odl Chateaureux, in France, has been arrested for swindling by means of a fraudulent bankruptcy. His defalcations amount to £150,000. The victims are chiefly Catholics. Received 12.55 a.m., April 25th. THE SOMALI RISING. The rising of Ogadin Somalis in Jubaland, East Africa, has been crushed, and British authority restored. THEFT OF PICTURES. PARIS, April 23. Several of M. Detaillx', the famous French artist's pictures, including liis masterpiece, " The March Past," have been stolen from his mother's residence near Paris.