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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42770, 26 August 1905, Page 3

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v . London August 2.4. The match against Kent, was begun in delightful weather and on a l ist wicket. The Australians winning \ln toss, went in and have lost four wickets for 201. Trumper 59, Noble no. out 51, Darling not out ■ 50, are the chief scores.' The Australians have lost 8 wickets for 367. Noble carried his-total to 70, and Darling to 154. McLeod is not out with 67. , • . ; 1 London Ay gust 24 Mr ChamberlaiD, ?in the course of a lecture, declared that it was foolish, and inimical to the National interest to encourage officering British ships with foreignei 8, and that the whole subject of manning the Mercantile Marine demands reconsideration. Annette Xelle'; man and Burgess Horace Mew started to swim from Dover to Calais, At 7 o’clock, Miss Kellerman was two miles ahead, laier she withdrew owing'to sea-sickness. ; =-’ •./ Washington, August 24. • Beyond saying that the proposal to divide Saghalien came originally from Russia, the ..Japapese envoys refuse to discuss the Russian statement.

, St Petersburg August 24 Soldiers are driving trains on the "Vistula railway, and report that at Irkutsk a coupling breaking wrecked a military train, 'thirty two were killed and forty-eight injured.. The Oemor prohibited =the publication of the Moscow municipality’s resolutions. | s Paris, August 24. far Moscow state that, 21 officers who met to discuss the National Duma scheme have been arrested. Copenhagen, August 24. A stoma struck the British Channel fleet leaving Esbjerg. Three destroy ers were damaged. :• ;. , Brisbane, Augnst 25, Mr Guthrie brings details of an in.surrection in South Borneo. Sultan Coni rebelled, Sul.an Gair supported him. The rising was caused through the Dutch imposing trading i estrictions which the natives refused to pay. A Dutch force including marines totalling 4,000, assisted by four warships, proce. ded against thp natives. Two battles were fought in bo'h of which the Dutch wore successful. Fighting us still going on. The impassion in 33u avia is that the Dutch will be successful in the pitched battles, but the natives retire inland and guerilla warfare is carried on. In one buttle it is stated, 250 natives and 14 Dutch were killed. Sydney, August'2s. Mrs Willis brought' a box in the charge of two detoctives and produced it before the Lands Commission. After | strong protests by Mrs Willis through her solicitor, against private papers being ovei hauled, it was opened before the Commission and found to •contain a quantity of jewellery and plate and a number of documents. The box with the jewellery and plate -was handed back to Mrs "Willis. The Commissioner impounded . the documents, and will privately peruse them much expeett d that the books relating to Mrs Willis’s business' would be there, but tl ey were not found. McNair and Hoskins, when examined.

stated that they were unable, to throw anv light on fl e .disappearance of the i hough the accountant at, the deposit deposed that the box.was much lighter af-er they and Mrs-- Willis had it°opejoed just before Willis left 'Syd ney. Willis’s box was subsequently brought .from the safe-deposit bu contained only heirlooms in the shape : of a sovereign and a brooch.. There was considerable excitement while the opening was proceeding. London, Xesterd?.y. , • 11 euter’s! Portsmouth correspondent reports that Colonel Meyer had a long audience with thS' Czar in pursuance of Mr Roosevelt’s detailed instructions the result of his audience. -It wae reported that considerable pro* gress was made. Mr Roosevelt on Thursday urgently made an appeal to both sides to refer the price of the • Russian retention of half Saghalien to special commissioners. Count Lamsdorff, on Thursday, authorised Reuter’s correspondent to declare officially in the most formal maimer that Russia would pay Japan no contribution directly 01 indirectly, nor makeany cession whatever- The report v as submitted to Count Vladimir. At the - provincial Zemtsvos Copimission amid cheers it was said that the National Duma scheme did- not fulfil any of the Zemtsvos’desires. Aresolution was carried in similar terms at Moscow. ; St Petersburg Yesterday. .Cossacks surrounded a socialist’s meeting at Dlutow near Lodz and arrested 380. A further 450 . were arrested at Lodz. During a fair at the village of Lihovka, an immense crowd of p3asait? attacked the merchants, pillaged their goods, and massacred the inhabitants. Some were mutilated by the gouging, of their eyes, and ■cutting off of their ears. Christchurch. This Day- ’ Yery complete arrangements nre to advertise the exhibition, a copy of the official . notice havmg " beed sent to.all leading newspapers, ' merchants, and manufacturers of the world: ■ : £tippH« s have ..been sent to numerous agencieej and an illuminated i, proclamation is following on a less extended scale. •

? WASHEfGIoiT, Yesterday. The Czar informs C >l. Meyer on indemnity question that concession was nipossible. The Ja ia nese plenipotentiaries definitely affirm this, and suggest.tl at the S.-ghalien compromise .was Japan's , ultimatum. Upon ore of ihem read, g Count Lams dorff’s statement one of them exclaimed ii . Then the sooner we gat away the better: we have done all _ that is jwssiblfe : th.e world willde us justice.