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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11946, 22 December 1902, Page 2

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BRITISH & IOKKIGN. United Vren Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 3.50 .a.m.. December 20th. THE CZAR'S CLEMENCY. ST. PETERSBURG, December 1.9. The Czar has permitted ihe students: exiled in Siberia for rioting, to return. RUSSIA AXD AFGHAXISTAX. The Russian Foreign Office has ccmimanica.iied to the newspaper* a declaration that Russia has not addressed any request. but_ had simply notified Britain of Russian desires and purpose 10 enter inlo direct :«la.riocs with Afghanistan. UXDESIRARLE PERSON'S. RUEXOS AYRES. neccmber 20. The AT'ger.tanc has rej)airia,tod ten Spanish Anarchists. ;md twenty-five other persons, ntof'tly Italiats. STRAXIJED GERMAN* WARSHIP. • BERLIX. December 19. Attempts by the cruiser Prinz Hcinrich and the battleship Kaiser Wilhehn Dtr Grosse to move the batilcsliip Witlclbat:h. which went ashore on the coast of Zealand, failed. The vessel is firmly tired in a shoal, and requires lightening:.* The bott.-itn is badly pitii-cxd with holes, wlijch will be patched" up. and the vessel refloated. The Piinz Heinricl) nearly went ajdioj« ii*»w. OOIXJXEL LYXCH. IjOXDOX, Deoembw 19. The Grand Jury found .a true bill agiijust C>»lt«iel Lynch, chaiged wilh ireasson. EARTHQUAKE AXD GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. An earthquake destroyod Atidjija. in Tuj-keslan. killing 155 j>c*ij)le and 'injuring SJCVERE WEATHER AXD LOSS OF LIFE. Many ca»-ualije« surid some falalities bav* bem oajjsed bv h;:avv gules ,m the Riilisb co.nvts. H<ISPITAL DESTROYED BY LIUHTLightning dwtroy<'d a hospital at K.-nn-p.i.l.i. a frnificd Briiish port tn the i»:iiii w<-si .of Victoria Xyaii.t!!. The ■woe unitijim«-l. 'wilful murder. A 1 lh( iTKjuest (vn Maud Marsh, a ret die; of wiljnl mvrder "was retimied agaJTist <liMpm:in. a jn;lili«:m. who emjiioyed ihe •dcoc.ns.cd :ls a barmaid. THE HAYTIAX REPUBLIC. G<r(«al X»rd has been installed V\vsident -of Hayli. ihe army accejitdng hjm with acclama.lioTi. _SLEEP! X<S SICKXESS. The Oummissioricrcs -who are inc Ihe jnrsturious disease ktiown as sleeping sickness in Uganda, report Ihal 70:000 natives have died in four years. Fifteeni thousand arc ♦■■till suffering from ibe dis. <-.a.si'. which is incurable and increasing in virulence. Revived 7.13 p.m.. December 20ih. THE TAFF VALE CASE. In the ju-tjon Taff Vale Colliery (lonipatiy against the Amalgamated Raalwav Servant** Union, to recover £28,000 for

alleged.loss,josultipg from the siMke, a,' Verdict Was given Against the Railway Serjk vants' ;Umon.~"'3iuß assessment of -damages I -\vas postponed. if Received 4.55 p.'W., December 21st. I RESIGNATION OF AN AMBASSADOR. 1,1 -Bfrtfember 20. * Sir Phillip Currie, British. Ambassador l.'j at Rome, has restated, owin£ to ill-health, | -1/ HE ARCHBISHOP OF GsVNTERBORY. I The, Archbishop of Canterbury slept ! bei> S : ter and took s<ft«c little nourishment but B has not gained strength. § LAUNCH "OF THE ARABIC. i The White Star .liner' Arabic has been [f launched' at Belfast. $ Received 1.17 a.m., December K2nd. » SOYAL BIRTH. LONDON, December 21. The Print's'oi'Ttf ales was accouched at. Cork Cottage.- Sandringham, oa Saturday evening. Mother and son are 'doing well. THE UGANDA RAILWAY. //CAPETOWN, Bomber 20. Mrs Chamberlain opened thfe highest viaduct of trie Uganda railway. ARREST OF THE HUMBERTS. MADRID, December 21. The Ffench Ambassador-to Spain, after receiving an anonymous letter stating that the Humberts were in i\ladrid, informed the police who recognised Emil Romain and Btfe Daurigna, tfho are implicated in the frauds entering a house. The police guarded every egtffeSs and summoned the occupants to suir/en'der. The police no answer, the twenty minutes' interval "beingutilised to destroy papers in tbe"lavatories. TTinally the police were admitted and Mrarsieur and Madame Humbert, Emil Romain and Eve Daurignac were arrested. Tile gendarmes prevented the Humberts' escape by a window: The priseiiers reached Madrid on May 9th. They state that they ate anxious for extradition to enable Inem to denounce their lawfer, M. Cattans, who thev s.tv is the anthor of all their misfortunes.