TELEGRAPHIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 11586, 23 October 1901, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH & FOREIGN

United Press Association—Per Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.2 a.m., October 22nd. THE MANCHURIAN CONVENTION" AND JAPAN. SHANGHAI, October 21. The projected Manchurian agreement between itussia and China is incensiw* J.ipaa. THE PLAGUE. The plague is raging in 7>i:ho-.v pnd other districts of northern China, farming a thousand deaths daily CHINA. Prince Tuan's esile militates against his sou's succession. The latter is represented as being dissipated and uncontrollable. A new heir will be selected when Ching meets the Court at Haipeng in November. The reformers urge the Allies to defeat the Dowager's selection of Tuan's nephew, who is of weak intellect and was a leader of the Boxer attack on the Cathedral.

GERMANY AND TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 23. Germany is offering Turkey a £3,000,000 loan, ana asking the completion of the Bagdad railway and other monopolies. OPPRESSED ARMENIANS. Two'thousand Armenians at Moosh have petitioned for permission to enter the Orthodox Church and thus secure Russian protection.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST DUELLING. BERLIN, October 21. Nine thousand residents of Berlin, including former officers of the army, have appealed to the public of Germany to assist in an anti-duelling campaign.

BALLOONING. BERNE, October 21. Rpelterini, an Italian aeronaut, eroded the Jungfrau range in a, balloon.

SEIZURE OF ARMS. PARIS, October 21. Two cases of rifles, addressed to the miners of Moncreaux, have been seized by the autliorities. COAL IMPORTS.

M. Rousseau is taking steps with regard to the interruption of coal imports in" the evert of a strike. Received 0.55 a.m.. October 23rd. FRANCE AND TURKEY. France refrains from coercion lest a dispute should follow with Turkey. THE TREATY OF BERLIN. At the instance of France and Russia, the Powers are discussintr collective action to enforce the Treaty of Berlin with regard to Macedonia, Armenia, the reopening of the Crete settlement, and other questions.

INDIAN LEGISLATION. BOMBAY. October 21

The North-Western Provinces and Oudh Tenancy Bill has been -passed by the Provisional Council of Allahabad, consisting of seven European and six native members. Three natives dissented. Sir A. McDonnell, Lieutenant-Governor, declared that the Bill would powerfully conduce to the

prosperity of agriculture, strengthen the foundations of British rule, benefit the Zemindars, and help the Ryots and landlords.

COMPANY RECONSTRUCTION. LONDON, October 21.

Mr Whitacre Wright prdposes to combine and reconstruct the London Globe Finance Corporation and the British-American Standard Exploration Company, with a capital of £2,000,000, half to be new shares. JUDICIAL. Mr George Wright, Solicitor-General for Ireland, has been appointed Judge of the High Court of Ireland. Mr James H. Campbell, K.C., has succeeded Mr Wright. THE COLONIES AND IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Earl Beauchamp, speaking at Brixton, favoured the Cabinet consulting with representatives of the colonies on the foreign policy of the Imperial defences, and said that Australians from up country afforded material for the finest scouts in the world. England ought to send an organising -staff WAR VESSELS IN COLLISION. A collision which occurred r.t Malta between the destroyer Dragon and the torpedo gunboat Harrier, caused damage to the bow and stern of the former. OBITUARY. Sir A. L. Smith, late Master of the Rolls, aged 65. OATS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. OTTAWA, October 22. The Department of Agriculture is shipping 500,000 bushels of oats to South Africa. '