TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 8988, 21 October 1896, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(By Eleotno Telegraph— Oopyright.) (Per United Press Association,) London, October 19. It is reported that Jameson and Wil. loughby, now serving sentence in connection with the Transvaal raid, will shortly be released on the score of health. The Admiralty experts have teated the Taamanian comprenßed cabbage, carrots, and turnips at Deptford. They report that the appearance is poor, and that the orMolna are tasteless, tough, and difficult to cook. 'J'heir opinion is tbat they are decidedly inferior to French and German. Paris, October 20. , General Billot, Minister of War, in hia Army estimates, has made a reduction of six million tranct.. The Budget Committee, however, iusist of a further re- ■ duction of thirteen million francs. The Premier, in addressing the chamber, said it was proposed to create a colonial army, to carry out reforms in judiciary, to provide relief for those engaged in agricultural pursuits, and to adopt an entire Rystem of decentralisation. Bbbwn, October 19. The Emperor visited tbe Czar at Darmstadt. (Per United Prenu Association.} Napibb, October 20. Mrs Chslmers, wife of a storeman at the Spit, wont to the fowlbouse at 5 o'clock this evening to get (?et eggs, leavher seven-year-old daughter in the kitchen. She heard screams, and on running back found the girl enveloped in flames. She promptly wrapped her in some sacks and extinguished the flames.