Telegraphic.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 20, 17 July 1900, Page 3

Telegraphic.

London July 12. Major-General French, the New South Wales Commandant, in ' a letter to the Times, outlines a scheme of war reserves suitable for Australia.

July 13. Five hundred Sepoys, forming part of the military force in British Central Africa, have been ordered to leavo Berbera for Ashanti. Colonel Hodgson has brought HokofF, Prempeh's heir, from Kumasi. Colonel Willcock's relief oolumn reached Bekwai on the 9th. At the wool sales a medium selection was offered. The tone was exceedingly firm at late rates.

Brisbane, July 18. Bain has greatly improved the prospects in the grazing districts.

Sydney, July 18. The Premier will be asked the following series of questions in the Assembly on Tuo3day : " Has he observed that the interests of New South Wales and Australia in the islands of the Pacific are threatened by ,the Premier of New Zealand offering inducements to the islands to transfer their trade from Australia to New Zealand, and seeking to have certain groups attached to his colony ? " " May not such attachment end in those groups being brought within the limits of the New Zealand tariff, thus giving a free entry of goods from Now Zealand, and placing restrictions on goods from Australia ? " " Does he not consider the greatest security for equality of trading conditions is a continuance of direct control of tha islands by the British Government ? " " Will he resist any attempt to divert, except by open competition, the trade which has been developed between the islands and Australia ? " The Herald, commenting on Mr Chamberlain's reply to Mr Seddon's proposal re the islands, says : "Clearly the Commonwealth will be quite a difierent factor to reckon with from a group of separate colonies. New Zealand, as a colony, ia as important as any of them. Under existing circumstances she is quite within her right in making suggestions. We presume Mr Beddon is not desirous of aetting up a counter federation of his own, and no doubt it will only prove a question of time when New Zealand will enter the Commonwealth. But meantime the Commonwealth have I to be reckoned with as a whole in any negotiations affecting British influence in the Pacific This is one of the results of federation foretold, and it will be perceived with pleasure that even the so far unaccomplished consolidation of Australian influence is already beginning to bear fruit."

July 14. The Premier has declared his intention feo giye women a vote, notwithstanding all that has been said against it. Adult suffrage had worked well in two of the colonies. New South Wales defeated Queensland at football by 11 points to 10.

Cough! Cough! C»ugh ! Don't cough, take Tussicura, a remedy for all throat and lung trouble*.