Telegraphic.
The Diet of the Grand Duchy of Hesse has voted a bachelors' tax of 25 per cent above the taxation imposed on married men. The Emperor of Germany and President Loubet exchanged greetings at Bergen. The Emperor entertained the French naval officers and cadets. The Figaro says in connection with the Emperor's speech on that occasion, that it is the first time for 30 years the Emperor called France a noble country. The Filipinos have liberated ■47 Spaniards held as prisoners. It is reported that the Czar is disappointed at the results of the Peace Conference. The Prince of Wales reviewed 30,000 London volunteers at the Royal Horse Guards on Saturday. The Admiralty are mobilising 118 warships for naval manoeuvres. The Novoe Vreyma expresses n:ujh dissatisfaction at the Emperor of Germany's visit to the French warship, and the congratulations which passed between the Kaiser and M. Loubet. M. Clemcnceau is publishing painful details of the tortures inflicted upon Dreyfus during M. Lebon's tenure of the. Colonial Office. M. Loubet denies that the Governor of Denies Island has been superseded for torturing Dreyfus in order to elicit a confession. During the floods in Brazos Valley, in Texas, 1000 persons took refuge on mounds out of reach of the water, where they were huddled together with reptiles and live stock. Many negroes died, some being bitten by poisonous snakes, while others succumbed to starvation. Seven hundred thousand tons of reef fell at a mine at Bloemfontein, entombing 26 miners. Mrs Eagen, whose husband was shot by a constable during a disturbance at Johannesburg, has been compensated by the Transvaal Government for her loss, in order to pi event British intervention. General Giletta, the Italian who was recently arrested at Nice on a charge of espionage and sentenced to live years, has been released on the occasion of the French national fete at Nice. ' The Servian Minister to St. Petersburg has been dismissed tor complicity in an attempt on the life of ex-King Milan. Military law has been proclaimed in Belgrade, where tke Radicals are | ptuuc stricken,
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 20, 13 July 1899, Page 1
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345Telegraphic. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 20, 13 July 1899, Page 1
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