TELEGRAPHIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 11818, 25 July 1902, Page 3

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BRITISH & FOREIGN United Press Association— Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.15 a.m.*" July 24th AN AWARD LONDON, July 23. „, B " on ( Lambermont has awarded. France £6500 for the seizure, by officials of the Niger Company, of the French steamer Sergeant Malamine on ;he river Nio-er several years ago. " " Tl Sl *< i ll0 * HICK S BEACH. -Llie bvandard" says that considerable pressure m being brought to bear to induce Sir Mwhael Hicks Beach to remain in office. Sail after the nest Budget is delivered His colleagues are anxious that Tie should prepare and carry out a scheme THE MARQUIS W SALISBURY. The London "Gazette" contains an announcement that the King lias conferred the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order on the Marquis of Salisbury in recognition of his long, faithful and valuable services to the Crowd, ;.ud Empire. LOAN WITHDRAWN. The projected British-Columbian loau of £721,000 has been withdrawn, and theunderwriters/ have been released from their obligations.

THE ROYAL STUD. " Truth " states that it is rumoured that His_ Majesty the King contemplates disposing of his racing stud, and cea-sing to ■own racehorses. THE LATE MR MACKAY. NEW YORK, July 23. The fortune of the late Mr J. "W. 'Mac-' Itay, the American millionaire, is put at upwards of £12.000,000. FREIGHT TO SOUTH AFRICA. American shippers have Teduced the freight on goods for South Africa to 9s a ton. AN ARBITRATION CASE.. The first case under the Hague Arbitration Treaty will be a dispute between the United States and Mexico regarding ;i:000,000 dollars of the Catholic Mission Fund of California. RIOTING IN PARIS. .PARTS, July 23. Violent scenes have ocsurred in France, arising from the closing of TJODD teaching places, which neglected to apply for au-; thority under the Association "Bill. Na- ■ tionalists are joining iu the street brawls ] in Paris. There have been "200 arrests, ' including that of Francois 'Coppee, the I French poet. j

THE PHILIPPINES. | ROME, Julv 23. j The Pope- pave audience to Mr Taffc, | Governor of the Philippines, and assured \ 'bim that the apostolic delegate to the j Philippines would be instructed to exe-1 cute the plans. mutually agreed upon Try j America and the Vatican. ■' , " j COLLAPSE* OF X TRUST, i. - WASHINGTON, July "23. _ \ President Roosevelt's* r.ction. and public! 'indignation have caused the collapse of the; meat trust. ' . Received 10.52 p.m.. Jury 24th; \ CORONATION DURBAR, ' BOMBAY, July, ! "Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, presides: at the Coronation Durbar tit TJeTh'i on ' "January Ist, on the same -site as "Lord :\ Lytton's proclamation of the late Queen' Victoria's title of Empress t>i India Tn - "1877. ■"'.■; CHOLERA. ! HONG KONG: July 24. . ■■' "For the first fortnight in July. 81 \Rus-■ sians and 363 Chinese died' o'f cholera at "Kharbin, Manchuria.