Telegraphic.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 17, 6 July 1899, Page 3

Telegraphic.

0 • The Canadian revenue for the year ended June 25th, is 25,250,000 dollars, "which is a record. 1 There is a general outcry against Mr Russell A. Alger, American Secretary of War, for his conduct of affairs o£, the War Department^,. OI Fatal riota have occurred ,at Valencia . and Barcelona. ' An enormous number of arrests has been made. Four were killed and twenty wounded in the Barcelona riots. The populace are exasperated at being saddled with additional taxatioii to support the army. A reciprocal commercial treaty has been . concluded between Jamaica and America. Mr Cecil Rhodes has left London'for Capetown.

The obstructionists hi the Italian Ciiamber of Deputies, finding themselves in a minority, and believing that the Speaker was favouring the Ministerialists, created a terrible scene, and there was tierce fighting round the vot-ing-rooms. Baron Sonning was injured in the fight. The Chamber was prorogued until Novem-^ ber. Two goods trains collided at Winsforcl, Cheshire, and *an exctu'sion'train ran into the wreckage. Fifty - coaches and wagons were wrecked. A number of persons were injured, but none killed. The Committee of the Peace Conference sitting at the Hague have adopted the French proposal that it would be the duty of the neutral nations to remind disputants of the permanent Court of Arbitration on 'the eve of a conflict. The Novoe Vremya urges the appointment of .a Russian agentat Cabul. The burgomasters of Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp and Liege have informed the King that they are unable .to hold themselves responsible for keeping order unless the Electoral Bill is withdrawn. t King Leopold replied that his action is limited by the" Constitu-' tion. Further disorders liavo ' taken place. 250 of the Civic Guards at Leige fraternised wifrji/ the Socialists. The 1. police . «dfc, Alost charged the mob, w&k •drawn swords, woun4ing &ea» \

By a boating accident at Bj heli, Carnarvonshire, 12 i, day School excursionists '* drowned. \ Eour thousand American tf are in the hospitals at the j? pines. They are discouraged over-worked, and complain* being badly handled. in the O' ations against the Filipinos. "3