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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11847, 20 July 1893, Page 1

DELAYED WIRES. [Br Electric Telegraph— I,'opybiqht,] (Per Phesß Asfociation.) London, July 17. The sculling match between Bubcat and Sullivan will be rowed on the 25th September, over the Thames course. A billiard match between Eoberts and Ives has been arranged, to hke place at Chicago in September. England won the Elcho Shield at the Bislcy lijfle Meeting. In the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone '"moving that an address be presented to 'he Queen, in reply to her letter on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of rorir, said that the interest in her reign had never been warmer, liecalliug the death of the Duke of Clarence, he said that the sad event had raised addition*! warmth towards thePrmceonVales. They were all actuated by ieehngs 0 [ !ove tor Prmcess M statement which was received with cheerswhile the Duke of York was looked upon as singularly frank and genial. Mr Keir Hardy protested against the esolu tlon es iallyM the HoQse couM rel eHnr HIT '° the qUeStion ° f .ehe for Hie thousands of poverty-stricken people in the Empire. The = Observer says the action of some of the Australian colonies in reducing the salary of their Governors will have the effect of narrowing the circle from which oureT atS ° f the P ° Sition Can be P ro " York. July 17. beven hundred paupers, mostly Bnssians arrived here to-day, but the authorities refused to allow them to land, pending a guarantee that they would not become a burden on the public. St. Pcteiishurci, j u ]y i7_ The Russian Government has decided to maintain a permanent fleet in American water*. The Norosti and Novoe Vremya state that Russia and France have decided to forthwith increase the strength e f their armies. l'.iws, July 17. The French press states that Lord Dufferin, British Ambassador, has asked to be transferred from Paris. The French press reports that the Sultan has promised the Khedive that he would make a request to Great Britain to evacuate Egypt. TllESlLYiiumsis. IBt -lectuic Telkukxhi-Covtbioht.] (Pbr Prsss Association.) London, July 17. The Times predicts that Broken Hill •vill be the first to profit by the revival in silver, aud the last to stop work . Silver isquoted at 2s Ogd. Cauttta, June Z7. ludia is issuing two millions sterling in ).J per cent rupee paper. New Yobk, J>jly 17, The Silver Knights, a secret society in Colorado, threaten to compelthe State to coiperate with Mexico in the event of the •epeal of the Sherman Act. A BIG SANDSTORM. IT RAGES FOR EIGHT HOURS IN ARIZONA. Phmnix (A.T.), Hard! 1.-Last Sunday from 10 o'clock till night )iie of the most severe sandstorms enow for years pro vailed throughout :he larger portion of Arizona. It was not so severe in Fhoonix as iv some other places, but here the air tfas completely filled with the flying particles, which penetrated overy wok and cranny c f the buildings, v isitors from Tucson say that there tor hours it was impossible to see :wo blocks, and the sun looked as jne were peeriug at it through a smoked glass. In the room in Phasnix only a few minutes sufiiced iov the sand tosctileon a sheet of Mper so much as to obscure \vvitIf one has never seen a sandsitorm such as blow 011 the desert jetween _ San BernardiLo and El Paso it is a curiosity. The wiud reaches a velocity of irom forty to eighty miles per hour, and everything that is loose is carried before t. The sand dunes of all sizes on the desert are lifted and shifted from place to place, assuming new and fantastic shapes. Often it looks From the car windows like a great sea of powdered snow rolling billow upon billow across the desert. Then j, contrary gust will catch it, hurl it high in tho ait and obscure everything. The shaip particles and even W.ajl gravel will strike one on tho face and hands with such force as to make him feel as if he was being pelted with small shot. When travellers on the desert are caught by snch storms the only way to protect themselves is to sit down with their backs to it, cover their Paces and wait for it to subside. Fortunately Phoenix has but few if these storms, and there have been Dnly two that might bo called sandstorms during the last two years The last one came fiom the southivest, and having, as it did, a fair sweep across the desert south of the river, tho day was made almost intolerable. One gentleman, a responsible official of the territory, jatne thirty miles in the storms on Sunday, aud says that it was the ivorst he ever saw. On the Aqua fria whole groves of mesquite were borne down, and thn drifting sand wveml up mid annihilated many wood camps .scattered along the 3dge of tho deseit. 0.X.0.-TEA.-0.X.0. PKKSH SHIPMENTS of t-h^ favoured iD TWA am now landing. 0.X.0. TEA is a PUKE CEYLON TEA packed on the Kotateß where it ia grown. Cho increased demand for 0 K.O. TEA is evidence that the brand is now one of the most popular in the market. 0.X.0. TEA can be had in all stores packed iv 61b and 101 b boxes, also in -Jib and lib packets