TELEGRAPHIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12285, 1 February 1904, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH km FOREIGN United Press Association —Per Electric ■ Telegraph—(Jopvright. THE jjLA.FJJ'JR HISING. Received 9 a.m., January 30th. CAPETOWN, January 29. Kaffirs have joined ilie revolt of the Hereiors tribesmea against the Germans at Okohandja. CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. i l J ARitj, January' 29. M. Leontieff, the Russian explorer, whose mission to Abyssinia in 1901 created considerable excitement, - has been awarded ■ 45,111)0 francs damages against the Paris Biograph and'Mutoseope Company for refusing to take pictures representing King. Menelik's Court. M. Leontieff gave King;" Meneiik two quick-firers an A 40,000 cartridges to induce him to pose for pictures. THE : MISSING FRENCH TRANSPORT. The search of the French, transport Vienne has proved fruitless.

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. LONDON, January 29. The Duke of Cambridge is ill. • OBITUARY. Dr Churton, Bishop of Nassau, : was accidently drowned at 'the Bahamas'. . Brigadier-General Edmund G. H. Bingham, ; who for a lengthly period was connected : with the Australian forces. FtRES IN THEATRES. Highly .successful experiments have been made] at the Alliambra Theatre; London,, irith Moul's process of fire-proofing seen- ;

ery and stage paraphernalia. ' ' . .RISE IN COTTON. ........ There is great excitement on the Liverpool cotton market. American ootton rose to 8.40., A similar advance has taken place in New York city. .LOAN FOR WELLINGTON. Wellington is issuing a £330,000 4 per 'cent, loan at 96. The amount has been underwritten. •• Received 12.34 a.m., February Ist. ■ I KING'S COLLEGE. , - ■ LONDON, January 31.-'-The; Earl of Dunraven recommends the ; establishment of King'c College within Dublin University, as Catholic in atmosphere, :as Trinity College is Protestant. A meeting of the Catholic laity of Dublin endorsed the principle of these proposals; the Bishops'likewise. Mr Redmond insists that the Government should make practical proposals this session. . , THE AYR SEAT. Mr- Debbie (Liberal), 3221 votes, was elected for Ayr; Mr Younger (Unionist)' polled 3177. . V .

RISE IN COTTON. NEW YORK,- January 31. There is unprecedented excitement in the New York cotton market, owing to Liverpool speculation; and prices rose forty points in. New York and sixty-five. in New Orleans. ■ -