Telegraphic.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 15, 4 July 1899, Page 3

Telegraphic.

The American War Department is recruiting 10,000 troops to be despatched in October to reinforce General Otis in the Phillipines. Both parties in the House of Commons have agreed to facilitate the passing of the Australian Federal Enabling Bill. The crisis in Belgium is the worst ever known in the history of the country. Rioting continued till 4 o'clock in the morning. Fhearms were used on both sides. Hundreds were wounded, ten seriously. A truce hat been arranged to enable the Government to study proposals for a compromise. Twenty-six emirs, two thousand women and childien and a thousand dervishes who deserted the Khalifa* have been allowed to settle at GendaTeff SennarIt is officially announced that thd Duke of Connaught has renounced his claim to the hen ship of the Dukedom of Saxe Coburg, in favour of the Duke of Albany. Madame Melba has been engaged to sing in Germany, Pads, St. Petersburg and Italy. Mr Taverner has arranged with the Gulf line for monthly clnect stenmerjs between Australia and Manchester and Glasgow at reasonable rates. The jurors speak in laudatory terms of the Victorian exhibits at the Greater Britain Exhibition, and it is expected that 90 per cent will receive first awards.

The polite often gets none at all. It is always possible to do ones best> A. family at Mansheld, "V'tnri, named Topp, developed sympl.ms of poisoning through eating my - roo as. A daughter has succumbed. '. he I'Rease is stated by the medical at tn ant to be what is known in Enganl as "rotten throat," and it ia v*.r contagious. Whenever the hatch of a --hip i« open there has- to be a light there, aa per brand new regulations, \mder A penalty of a hundred notes 01' lo- - A ton of coal produces nearly 10,006 cubic feet of ga^ 5 the greatest amount of which is obtained from the Scotch canal coal. Streut lamps consume about sft. per hour. Actiess in a suburban theatre (to he* children): "Your fatheT is to play Ham&t to-mght, so you will be able to have £omfc j p .dihn« io-iuoirov. Jack, you ha&beWJK nr-ei him at the stage door, '- <■ ' .. - cairy home the eggs. Tom : Y u -say the ! Irils fcttdbj 'agrootft. looked nice. wba. t.^-u ,^**f Will: '-Ob. they took vhecake k ''

The colonies exhibit eampjß of their products at the galvatM Army Exhibition in London. ~m 'The Agents-General have M vestigated'th'e New Guinea LaJ Syndicate's claim for reixnburfl rnent in connection with the am render of the concession, ai recommend some reduction | the Syndicate's claim. I The committee's report to tlf Peace Commission on Russis naval limitation scheme recoifi mended that it was ' not -accepts bie. \;5 Particulars of the riot, at Brn| jsels show that SUOO rioters as sembled in the vicinity of Kini Leopold's palace and Parliamen House shouting ' Vive la Reputji lique.' The gendarmes and poiis \ charged with fixed bayonets an< swoixls. They were received witl volleys of stones and some shoiffl I Two gendarmes and many rioterH were wounded. A Socialist DcS •ptity received a wound on thl head. The Socialists created violent scenes in the Chambe* when a motion of censure on th& i Government was defeated. TheJ commenced whistling, banging the desks, and compelling- a bus,' pension of the sitting. The So^ cialists attempted to assault M.l Van Den Perereboome, Minister^ of Railways, exclaiming "you' wretch." The King has sunv 1 moned M. Baernert, President* oft the House of Representatives, W return from The Hague. ! The Admiralty Court, Sydneyj has given an impoitant decision^ holding that the fire brigade i^ .entitled to salvage in extinguish^ ing the fire aboard the steamer? Buteshire, on the ground that tie' harbour is outside the brigade's! jurisdiction. The barque Otterburn broughtto Melbourne the "crew of • Italian brigantine Maria C, num-1, bering ten Italians in all. The Otterburn sighted the briganti'ne on March 30th in mid-ocean in! a" sinking condition, having sprung a leak during a heavy storm some days before. The crew had taken to the boats when sighted' by the Ofcterburn. A tempestuous sea was running, and the men we're got aboard' with great difficulty. ' The brigantine sank shortly after. The Teung -li- Yamen have abandoned their intention to dis- , miss Mr Kinder, the English engineer, who constructed .the railway between Tientsin and Pekin, when warned that Great Britain would view the action in ' a serious light. The Teung-li-Yamen also acknowledged therights of the Pekin Syndicate— an Italian company — to construct - railways in the provinces of Sl*ansi and Honan, and so effect a connection with the Y v angtse Valley. The Paris municipal authorities have adopted motor lire engines and water carts. Dreyfus landed at Quiberon early on Saturday, and was loOged < at Rennes before 6 o'clock. Vfery few people were -present, and - there was no demonstration^' 1 The famous prisoner looked ill and 1 grey. Dreyfus had a 'touching, interview with his wife. Uf is $ completely ignorant of the events * of the {past two years. ' f