Telegraphic

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 99, 23 January 1900, Page 4

Telegraphic

Melbourne, Jan. 18, | Bush fires are again raging ii^ the country. Many thousand acres of grass have been destroyed aM Kihnore, and 1000 tons of firewood,] and several houses have beeis burned, j

Sydney, 3m. 19. 3 The American Tobacco Co. haa donated 100 guineas to 'the New Zealand Patriotic Fund, and a^ similar amount to each of .the Aus-j tralian funds. 1 The Right Hon. Earl Beauchanxg visits New Zealand next month. ] The Postmaster- General received a cable from Mr Chamberlain in reply to one sent by the Secretary of State that the colonies see no' objection to New South Waleg accepting the Cape Cable Scheme if the company make certain alter? ations. The company has agreed except on one point, which it i$ now discussing.

Jan. 19. i Private letters from Noumea speak of stringent measures' tft stamp out the plague. Rats are held; to be chiefly responsible for thfi spread of the disease. Over two hundred rats in one consignment of rico were killed and the 250 tons of rice was thrown into the sea. Firej water and disinfectants ai c instrumental in checking the disease, Iqt one case a young Englishman, while killing a rat, wae bitten by a flea off the animal, and a bubo| ' formed and" spread through ml system. j The Hong Kong correspondent of the Telegraph states that Japairi is very restless, and is keeping i sharp watch on the movements of the Bussians. Japan is quite read# to invade Eastern Siberia and! Manchuria, and will not put up with any undue encroachments iri Corea. Japan will strike sharply, and decisively, knowing that withi her it will be practically a life an& death struggle.

London, Jan. 20. f ' The capture of Osnian Digna ai; Tokah Hills is announced. ■ A Adelaide, Jan. 10. j No fresh cases of the are re-j ported. i]

Jan. 20. ) The doctors have a suspicious: case of a boy under surveillancoJ The house is strictly quarantined, f Noumea, Jan. 21, « There have been no fresh cases^ of plague here for several days, but? there are six suspected cases among! Tonkinese at Nipoul on the "west; coast. i Jan. 16. ] Bishop Julius has arrived from a; visit to the islands. "|

Every creed now accepted on earth, ex-j cepfc fetishism, ia Asiatic in oiigin.l Buddha, Confucius, Manoo^ Christ so far] as he was human, St. Paul, Mohammed/i were all Asiatics ; and it is by their idea<n that the religious thought of the worlds is at this day dominated. i