Telegraphic.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 5, 8 June 1899, Page 4

Telegraphic.

Spain will retain a coaling-sta-tion at each group of. islands ceded 1 to Germany. The latter will pay twenty six million pesetas (J143<3,000) indemnity, and undertake to defend the coaling stations. • ' By a boating collision on the Thames, ' Towns, the Australian sculler, smashed two ribs. The Agents-General were present at Mr Ohamberlaiu's birthday. 'An announcement was made that new orders would be established providing for decorations for bliic'ers of the colonial' auxiliary forces, also i a long service medal. i, v Owing to the pneumatic brake not acting, the express iiain dashed into an empty waiting room at Flushing. The daughter of Soth, the Swiss delegate to the Peace Convention, and two guards were killed.. There is much activity in Sydney mining circles in gold dredging. The Government have received applications to lease 20,000 acres of river flats. Villiers, the well-known war correspondent, arrived by the Orient on a lecturing tour &p, the Khartoum campaign. . • The Daily Telegraph publishes a leader commendatory of New .Zealand's land settlement. It says that, there is little danger accord- ;- ing to the present outlook <of the New Zealand Government losing anything by this daring pioneer movement. With reference to a cable from New Zealand stating that £5000 was missing from the strong/room of the Alameda last trip, it' is understood that the police, have received certain information,, but will not 'divulga it, li is rumored that the theft was committed in Sydney. There are no grounds for supposing the gold was stolen before tne Alameda left Sydney. The police are inquiring for the whereabouts of jone or two clever criminals, who were released from gaol about the time tlie vessel left, and who have not been seen about their accustomed haunts. The police have ascertained that a notorious Safe-robber was aboard the Alameda. The Manager of the, London Bank of Australia, to whom the missing gold belonged, believes it was pat ashore at Auckland. It was insured in .London. The Marine Board found the loss of the Tekapo was due to the wrongful act or default of the captain in navigating too, close along the coast, tie has b^en called upon next Monday to show caus,e way his certificate should not be cbalt with . . During the passage of the Pyladea from Plymouth, a seaman and a leading stoker mysteriously disappeared. It ii 3 b-Mieved that both or tbem fell overboard. A fire oceured in the forehold of the >irque Aldergrove, at Newcastle, among the coal. 'All efforts' to extiugaish if have so far failed. It ib believed that the vessel is .seriously injured.' A bottle has been picked: up at Heqley Beach, Adelaide," containing a message that the Marie Antoinette,, about ''December 25th,'' sunk with all hauda except the first mate (Johnson), Hie second , mate w>o was, then dying, and the writer ~(smith^ art able sea-,--man}, Ttie. latter gives Ins

mother's address in London, -with a request that his fate be made known 'to, her* - America and Spain have resumed diplomatic relations. i The Kaiser says that the newest German possessions in the Pacific acquired from Spain are important to German, trade. ■ , Twenty -three thousand Cretan^ who have left the island since the new Government was established are settling in Asia Minor., ' The leading English 1 musicians are appealing to the public £ot £180,000 to erect and endow a National Opera House. The London County Council have offered a site and monetary assistance. Lord Kitchener ,was / present during the debate iii the House of Commons on his grant. King' Humbert has granted a# amnesty to the 1 rioters sentenced in connection with the late Milan riots.