Telegraphic.
An agitation is on foot in the Dominican republic to secure American protection. (The Dominican Republic comprises the Eastern, formerly the Spanish, portion of the I&land of San Domingo or Hayti, and has a population estimated at half a million). Another tramcar ha? been dynamited at Cleveland. An ex-convict was arrested with 751bs of dynamite in his possession. He is believ6d to be the chief conspirator in. the plo,t to destroy the power of the tramway^ company. A conference of naval officers representing Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria has been opened at Melbourne to consider the question of establishing a colonial naval reserve. A great firo has taken place at Hull. A hundred thousand pounds worth of grain was burned. General A. Guzman Blanco, ex-Presi-dent, and sometime virtual dictator of the Venezuelan Republic, is dead. The Echo de Paris published a summary of M.Beaurepaire's dossier, which the Rennes, Court-martial refused to receive. M. Beaurepaire alleges that 31 anonymous \\ itnesses ai'e ready to prove, that the object of the trial was not to" establish Dreyfus' innocence, but the of the Jewish sect. The evidence is largely hearsay, and revives allegations of the prisoners dissoluteness and extravagance. The Paris correspondent of the London Times declares that the charges are incoherent and outrageously improbable, and have been greeted with ridicule. Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Minister at Washington, has been raised to the peerage. The Archbishop of Canterbury has forbitlden the use of incense and processional lights. It is onlypremissible to sweeten a church building entiroly apart from public worship. H.is Grace entreated the clergy to respect his decision. Advices state that the Samoan Commiseioners propose that a disinterested Power should appoint an Administrator who will preside over the Tripartite Council.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume 29, Issue II, 3 August 1899, Page 3
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289Telegraphic. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume 29, Issue II, 3 August 1899, Page 3
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