Telegraphic

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 110, 17 February 1900, Page 1

Telegraphic

London, Feb. 14. Mr Mather, a Liberal, has been elected to the Hcmse of Commons for Rossendale. a division of Lancashire, by a majority of 1372. He is replacing Mr Madden, who resigned. German and Austrian newspapers consider tibat Mr Wyndham's scheme of increasing the British army is insufficient in the present crisis, and strongly urge the ultimate reorganisation based on the conscription or Swiss system as a minimum. The shareholders of both companies endorsed the amalgamation of the Castle Line and British Union Steamship Companies. Three hundred thousand pounds worth of 4 per cent treasury bonds has been floated with a currensy of two years, at an average of about 102^ A severe blizzard in "England has caused great damage io telegraph lines and blocked the railways.

P«rth, Feb. 14. Mr Parker, Q.C, has been despatched to England to watch lha Commonwealth BjII through the British Parliament.

Sydney, Feb. 14. The mysterious murder at Grafton lias been cleared up. A lad nam Q d MoFarlane was found with his head battered with a fence rail. A companion lad, Murphy, stated that they raised a melon patch. It was alleged the owner chased them. Murphy has now confessed that he murdered hio companion.

Noumea, Feb. 14, From January 24th to February 4th, four fro3h casps of plague have occurred, and two doaths.

awsT^ t _ Melboubne, Feb. 14. The Audit Commissioners' report gives the total debt of Victoria, funded and unfunded, to the first of July last as £48,803,000.

Adelaide, Feb. 15. Mr Copeley, a member of the Assembly, and Mr Guthrie, a Labour Member, hauled down the Union Jack, bearing the emblem of the colony at the- Government House, on the ground that the Queen's regulations only permitted the flying of the flag when the Governor was on shipboard. ,The private secretary requested the secretary to invoke police action.