Telegraphic

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 111, 22 February 1900, Page 1

Telegraphic

London, Feb. 18* ' The Marylebone Club has abandoned the proposed cricket 'tour to South Africa owing to the war. The British reserve squadron of six battleships and several cruisera, under Vice-Admiral Sir Compton ,E. Domville, Admiral Superintendent 6i Naval Reserves, has been ordered to mobilise on Mar,ch Ist, for a month's torpedo gunnery exercise. The Westminster's personality has been sworn at £594,229. The Rev. .Hugh Pric,e Hughes visits Australasia, shortly in ,connection with Wesleyan Missions. In "a Parliamentary bye-election the .Hon. Ivor Guest was, returned unopposed for Plymouth in place of Sir Edward Clarke, Who resignedin consequence of- being censured, for expressing sympathy with "the Boers. > ' Mr Welby, -a' ConSe~rva'tive,Tttras elected for Newmarket "division, Nottinghamshire, by, a' majority of

/ k < .Feb. 19*, i v The Queen £1000 to the Indian S amine Relief Fund, - Joseph Oowen, proprietor of the Newcastle Chronics^, and ex-M.P» for Newcastle, is de|d» aged 69, ' The personality in the estate of the late Sir Henry Tate-was'< sworn at a milliqn-and-a-quarter. , , The cruise of the Channel Squadron, recently ordered to Gibraltar to relieve the Particular Service Squadron, ha 3 been- altered. Tb_6 Squadron remains in Brirish waters until April, and then proceeds to the Mediterranean. , - The' -Government has omitted the Lord Mayor of Dublin a^nd a", number of other Mayors from the Assign Court' Commissioners, owing- to their disloyalty.

/ Feb. 20. ' In the Bank of New Zealand v. Simpson, appeaEtovai^allowejL with costs. ' ~ '* 'W . ■>'

Tho Kighi'Hon* si^jjFJ^Mpnr spn, , British- Ahibassagpr has""returned to Parisr ' dp/- , ; - .

' - „ Roml, : Feb. 19L r Forty-five "bf tbd> chief of the Mafia Terrorising Society have been arrested at"Messina, ; Sicily .- \

. , \ Ntfw Yoek, Feb. 18. - \ Roland Moliheux'is to Be.electro* cuted at New York" on March 26th « • President ' McEinley, the Filipino war : en6ed, Withdraws half , the troops" from 'the Philippines 4 $nd J appoints a .Civil Commission -to brgS-iiige governrn£jnt and military control '.oj .^hagrojip:' \,^V\, >'l;,' : :;\\[

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