Telegraphic.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 19, 11 July 1899, Page 1

Telegraphic.

An immense body of copper ore has been, discovered at Coolgardie;' T-ke assays give 50 pet cent, of copper and sufficient gold to pay the mining expenses. The lode has been traced four miies.' Sir Michael Hidka-Beach has proposed a grant of £45,000 towards the Antarctic expedition if an equal amount is raised by subscription. The American- Australian line steamer Adana, bound fr6m New York to Melbourne, has put l into Capetown disabled. The Peace Conference has retegated the question of the de* fence of private property- at sea to a future conference^ The Brit-, ish and French ' delegates did not vote. Thirteen thousand volunteers ,are,beli^g s6n.t<frp& Washington 1 to '$$, Pfrilipmes. 1 - ;TBb t t £k4miitftEii'fLegi9lative Assembly have passed a -resolution favouring womanhood suffrage. While ex-King Milan was drivine through Belgrade, four shots were fired at him, striking him .. in the back and wounding his adjutant. King Milan's I*wounds1 * wounds are slight. He jumped from his carriage, drew his sabre, and pursued his assailant, who jumped, into the river. The culprit," who was arrested, proved to be a dismissed municipal fireman* Two Radical ex-Premiers and Radicals : have 'been 1 arrested at Belgrade on suspicion of ; instigating the attempt on • the- life of King Milan^ 'thus' hoping to bring about a revolution. Thirteen' thousand volunteers aYe being sent to the Phillipines. 1 The warship Lizard replaces, the Goldfinch on the Australian station. • ' The Emperor visited the French' warship "Iphigeriie at Bergen. The French newspapers consider the act one ' of homage to the French ~navy. Li Hung Chang at the request of the Emptfess is reporting: on the best means of improving the tea and silk trade of China. ' ' General Bruger,e has succeeded General Ztirlinden as"' Military Governor of Paris* General Zur* linden has been appointed to command 18,000 of, the army at Bordeaux. The French Government hav6 ordered an enquiry into- the treatment* of Dreyfus whilst on Devil's Island, M." " Beaupaire* in boasting that he had secured positive proofs of Dreyfus' 'guilt, has dehianded f to be heard* at the ' Rennes trial.' The Figaro shdtys I that he • has been A egregriottsl^ • i kQaxed for the'isecoa&'ta&'v . ;