Telegraphic.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 8, 15 June 1899, Page 4

Telegraphic.

Reutcr's Washington correspondent states that private advices with regard to the proceedings of ;the Peace Conference show that the German representatives are marked] y hostile to the principle of arbitration, There is grave danger of failure. There was no demonstration during the running of the Grand Prix, and Paris is undisturbed. A storm at San Pedro, Valladolid, destroyed 160 houses, killing 10 persons. A cloud burst at Austin, Texas, and killed 25 people. Several officers of chasseurs have been arrested at Nice for shouting " Vive rarm.ee, down with the traitors." A dynamite explosion at Kimberley mines killed 17 natives and three Europeans. Heavy floods have prevailed in Sansata and Manardville, Texas/ Twenty persons were drowned. Mewanga, ex-king of Uganda, and a chief of Kabarega, who were captured by the expedition under Captain Evatt, have been exiled to Kiswazu, a seaport of British East Africa. Three workshops at Baron Armstrong's Elswick works were destroyed by fire and much costly machinery was burned. The damage is estimated at £200,000. The fire has thrown 2000 hands | idle. j M. Loubet was the recipient of j a great republican and socialist demonstration going and returning to the races. He received an ovation on the course, though many of the habitues were absent. The overwhelming precautions secured perfect order. ', An American sounding and dredging expedition, under the direction of Professor Ag-i&iz, will exploj c the mid-Paciiic in August. Krantz, Picquart and Delcasse were cheered, and Rochefort and Deroulede were hissed at the races. In the Queensland Assembly, the Federal Bill passed through Committee without material amendment. The third reading will be taken on Tuesday. The Premier anticipates no difficulty in passing- the Bill through the Council,

! Mr Reid speaking at Newcastle, . in reply to a question, said that if lie were Premier of New South Wales when the Federal Govern-; was formed he would have a legitimate right to aspire to ths position of Federal Premier. lie believed in always being on top. and was going to stay there till someone shifted him. The Sydney Marine Board suspended the certificate of Captain Suns of the Tekapo for six months. The Newcastle Board of Marine severely censored Captain F<rrester, of the steamer Lindus. for an error of judgment in not ascertaining the state of the bar prior to sailing. The steamer Duke of Buckingham, homeward bound, was-'* dipcovered on fire off Goorle MatuL The work of flooding is proceeding and everything is in ro idine^ ' to beach the vessel if necessary. Three intercolonial shipping companies have arranged to rai^e their freights 25 per cei't from the 12th, bringing the rates up to those which ruled in 18%. The American forces operating in the north capital of the PhUipiues, have occupied Law Pinas dud Parangue. Thirty Americans were wounded. The Novoe Vremya warns Germany th-it her railway schemes in Asia Minor, especially in Mesopotamia, are menacing Russian, interests in a serious degree. Russia has obtaim'ed from Corea a concession of three icefree ports for a period of twelve years. The retrial of Dreyfus at Bennes will differ from the 18',)^ trial, in that the Court-Martial will include artillery officers of that branch of the army to which Dreyfus belongs. The preliminary enquiry will last six weeksSir Gordon Sprigg, ex-Premier of Cape Colony, who was recently defeated for Lemfuland, haa boon elected for East London. The steamer Mamari has been towed into Monte Video harbour with tho tail of her shaft broken, the result of a collision. News has been received in I London that the bubonic plague I has appeared at Bushire, Persia, the principal seaport in the Persian Gulf. Her Majesty the Queen hay sent a message to Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society, expressing her interest in exploration in the Antarctic. By means of an electrophone the patients in the London hospitals were enabled to hear sixteen eminent preachers* on Sunday, which was observed as Hospital Sunday. The Marquis of London erry, Lord Roseberry, Eai'l Spencer, and Lord Wolseley support the project to construct a tunnel connecting England and Ireland at a cost of £10,000,000. It is intended to ask the Treasury to provide the necessary money. Dr Zorn, professor of Koßigaburg University, the German delegate to the Peace Conference,, informed the Arbitration Committee that the Kaiser regarded a permanent tribunal as derogatory to the sovereign's divine prerogative. The statement ci i eaj;<id a sensation, •