TELEGRAPHIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3625, 22 August 1901, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH & FOREIGN,

United Press Association—Per Electrio » Telegraph—Copyright.

Received 9.42 a.m., August 21st. A MEETING OF SOVEREIGNS. LONDON, August 20. The Czar, the Kaiser, and the King of England meet at Fredensburg, in Denmark, on the 7th. Received 9.2 a.m.. August 21st. THE CITY LINE OF STEAMERS. Mr J. R. Ellerman, who was chairman of directors of Leyland's line of steamers until the recent purchase by Mr Pierpont Morgan, lias bought the City Line, Limited. The City Line has'l4 steamers, with a tonnage of 40,000, trading between Glasgow, Liverpool and the East Indies. It is understood that the purchase price is £750,000. / , THE CORONATION. The Queen has intimated that she hopes that ladies attending the Coronation ceremonies will as far as possible wear drcss.as of British material and manufacture. CRICKET. There was tremendous scoring in the cricket matches yesterday. Nine centuries were put up in four innings. A LIVE SHELL.—THREE MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS. Whilst unearthing an unexploded lyddite shell at Dartmoor; two sergeants and a constable were blown to atoms. BISHOP OF DURBAN. The- Rev. Handly Carr Glynn Moule, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, succeeds Dr Westmacott as Bishop of Durban. TORPEDO-BOATS. The British torpedo gunboat Hazard has been commissioned, as a first step towards the establishment of a submarine flotilla. Five submarines with a speed of 7 knots an houl" are being completed at Barrow-in-Furness. VESSEL DISMASTED. The barquentine Lapwing, bound from Sydney to Falmouth, put into Monte Video partially dismasted, and with part of her cargo of wheat damaged. FRENCH INTRIGUES. PARIS, August 20. M. Andre. Minister of War, states that one of the pretenders to the throne tried to seduce Army Corps commanders from their duty, but the commanders revealed the intrigues. OBITUARY. M. Andrau, the composer of comic opera, v Received 11.12 p.m:, August 21st. THE CZAR AND CZARINA. The: military review, which the Czar attends, will 'be held at Reims on the 19th. ' The Czaiitza is expected to visit Compeigne.

THE NATIONALISTS. NEW YORK, August 20. Sever.-ft New York newspapers discuss with displeasure the manifesto of the Nationalist members, comparing them with Tammany. Numbers of American writers demand loyalty from acceptors of Tammany help. The " Brooklyn Eagle" states that an IrishAmerican capitalist simultaneously supported six Nationalist members of the House of Commons, and,that several other capitalists supported one or more apiece, with what was virtually Tammany money. SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. The iceberg the Yukon liner Islander struck upon was barely visible on the surface. Many of the victims were asleep. The impact, jammed the state-room doors. The stewards burst them open with axes. The passengers rushed six of the bonis, disregarding the women, and pushed off despite the officers' efforts to stop them bv threats that they would use their axes. Several persons were drowned while trying to rescue the gold. A squnll wipsizcd a steamer on Ohio river while the passengers were at supper. Seventeen persons were drowned.

THE ROYAL TOUR. CAPETOWN. August, 21. The Dnke and Duchess of Cornwall were received by the Khana and 100 other native ohiefr. , . : :