Telegraphic.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 28, 1 August 1899, Page 3

Telegraphic.

A number of replies, on behalf of the missionaries, charge Cardinal Moran with evading the issue and throwing dust in the eyes of the public in order to shuffle out of his Sarnoan charges^ Professor Maskelyne has made a senes of successful experiments with wueless telegraphy. He exchanged signals with an aeronaut in a balloon. The aeronaut at Mr Maskelyne's direction, exploded at a height of several miles a tail of gun-cotton cartridges suspended from the balloon. He also exploded without establishing a con' nection, at a distance of 400 yards, a powder magazine on land. He professes to be able to achieve equally successful results at two points ten miles apart. The Wesleyan Methodist annual conference rejected a resolution that no Christian ought to manufacture or sell intoxicants. Two hundred persons were killed by an earthquake at Hawaii. The British old age pensions scheme will involva a capital of £10,000,000. The Hon. John McKenzie, who underwent an operation, is now out of danger. The idea of raising a brigade for Imperial service is very popular in Canada. Dreyfus is improving. Professor Weil of the Volaire College 'has been suspended for advocating the Dreyfus case to his pupils. General Ulises Hereax, president of the Dominican Republic, was assassinated at Moca, a town in the northern district, Island of Hayti. Two men were killed and two others injured by a fall of earth at the Broken Hill mine. Another man was similarly killed at Block 12 mine. Cardinal Moran declared that Catholic churches in Samoa were desecrated by the natives who alleged that they were egged on by the European protestants. His Eminence suggested that hatred of the -Roman Catholic Church was the cause of all the The British, American, and Italian delegates tp the Peace Conference are resisting an attempt to allow tlie Tra.nsvaal and the Papacj to adhere to the Peace Convention by means pi a side wind. Standard 'states that England

and Italy*, will construct a railway from Kassala to Massowah. - < • Leave to appeal was granted in the case of Jellicoe y. the' Law Society of Wellington. " ' * The reactionary agitation against ( the Austrian Government is extending, and the suppression of public meeting* is being deeply resented. ' . '