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Wanganui Chronicle, 10 August 1901, Page 1

The London and India Dock Companies increased dues are expected to yield an additional £90,000 per annum. The application is equally ' applicable to part cargo rates. . - .-. -.-

SiPtAudley Cpote, acting on behalf of a German.' company, -has applied to t3ie Federal Postmaster-General for permission to lay a cable "from German New Guinea to Queensland. No details are given, but it is understood that •it is • hoped to have the landing place in British New Guinea.

..Another disturbance hias. taken place on the Afghan Hill frontier where twohundred Mahsuds rushed a military post, held' by thirty Wazirirtan militia in the Gomal Pass in the Sulaiman Mountains. Four of the militia were killed and four wounded. The Mahsuds looted everything found in the post.

A , quite extroardinary excitement has been created in St. Petersburg society (says the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mail of May 14) by the following occurrence:—The tnew Minister of Education, General Vannoffsky, on his return from, Moscow recently,, summoned [ twenty students to his private house, and | had a long fatherly italic with them, and • asked them to put their grievances and ! complaints clearly before him.. Among : the students were some. who were intelli- , gent, outspoken and they succeeded |in thoroughly, opening the «y«s of the I Minister aa to'the gross behaviour of the ! police. A couple of days later the MinisSter wished to have another talk with two lof the students, and summoned them ! again to his house.. But they had entirely I and completely disappeared. Not; a soul i knew where they had gone. General; Van• noffsky immediately informed the Czar, i Who ordered all possible enquiries to be jxnade, but nothing ■ was discovered. : The feneral opinion is that these students aye ben put away or hidden by the poliice because they had dared to impugn the I official conduct of the Minister. General iVannoffsky ,is thoroughly disgusted that ; even hi his private house he is beset with spies, and the matter will not be allowed 'to rest until the whole truth is revealed;

The London "Daily Clhronicle" understands that the Governorship of the State of Victoria will be offered to Colonel Sir George Sydenham Clarke, a distinguished military and political officer, at present occupying the position of superintendent of the Royal Carriage Department.