TELEGRAPHIC

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12143, 11 August 1903, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

BRITISH AND FOREIGN United Press Aanociation —By Meotric - Telegraph—Copyright Received-9.10 a.m.. August 10th. ; ; THE aoVKKNOK-Ol'-NKBAL. .. Lyj?l>ON, August 9. Tjjf'jjewspapm "declare tlwt Lord Northcfnti's selection as tTovernor-Ciclieralot th» Commonwealth give* general satisfaction. Resides social gifts unit a pleasing person- y alitv. the advantages of his training have • i;ive.n him an excellent preparation for his new- post. "His ripe experience and tactful political sympathy will bo valuable in a nee democratic federation. THK LATK PHIL MA\. The bodv of I'hil May was buried in the Catliolic cemetery at Kcn.sal tircon. Iherc was a great gathering of journalists, and Mr l.ongstafl'e and Mr Tom Hubert*, Austiulian artists, were present. HOOLKY' JjlAr.l,l'. TO PRUNKCUTION. Sir Robert Finlay. Attorney-General, staled in the House of Coimnous, that the' Director of Public Prosecution was concitlering the question of prosecuting h. '■ Hooley. as two Judges in recent cases had .Ic-ci ihed Ms actions as frndulont. ORITIARY . LONDON, August 10. Hour Colonel Scltiel at llichetijiall, Havana. . . a NKCKKT TKKAT\ . Renter's St. Petersburg correspondent suites that telegrams have been received asserting that- Ihihet- is greatly excited owing to a secret- treaty having been concluded between the Dalai Lama and Russia The Chinese plenipotentiary has -SSraCK W-HOLAIISIIII'S. The Exhibition Commissioner* have iiwnrded tlns Science Research Scholarship of £l5O to Arthur Royf of Sydney .University, and granted Richard Hosking, of Melbourne, and Mathew Albert Honter, of New Zealand, a second year.

**THE IMPERIAL POST OFFICE AND

_ , AUSTRALIA. , The Post Office annual report, regrets the: failure to extend the penny post to Australia, and is unable to accept Australia's latest' offer not to levy charges on* letters sent from the United Kingdom while maintaining the 2£d rate homewards, because it will inevitably lead to under payment on a large number of letters sent to Australia, causing annoyance and disadvantage to the recipients.

Received 10.47 p.m., August, 10th. RELIGIOUS UNREST IN FRANCE. ■\: ■ PARIS,. August 10. " M. Coombes, the Premier, when addressing 3500 school teachers at Marseilles, de- - "dared ;that congregations supported by the higher ranks of the clergy, had been trying for 14 months to provoke a religious civil war, but they had signally failed. As a whole France "supported the Government's policy. If the opposition continued the Government would •consider the advisability of modifying'the relations of -Church and State. -"-- ASSAULT ON THE 'FRENCH PREMIER. . / ; While proceeding to a banquet, avman threw a tomato at M> Coombes, and when pursued the nrui's companion fired two Tevolver shots. The jidfice arrested Ijoth 'men. POLITICAL. VIENNA, August 10: The Emperor Joseph has accepted Count Hedervay's resigration of the Premiership. "-' ' ■ ' CHINESE FIREWORKS. , PEKIN, August 10. _ A great explosion of gunpowder at Kiangui in North China was heard seventy mile's away.' No one was killed.