Telegraphic

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 140, 3 May 1900, Page 3

Telegraphic

0 London. April 29. The Queen has arrived at; Windsor Palfico. The Qneen sonfc a message of enquiry and sympathy to the snfiereis by the OL law a fire. The Lord Mayor lias opened a relief fund. By the Ottawa fire, 5000 were ruined and 18,000 rendered houseless.

April SO. The North Gorman Lloyd's steamers have be°n forbidden to brrag freshly slaughtered meat and dairy products from Australia and China.

Papts, April 30. An unfinished bridge over a street iatei'scctm^ the Pans Exhibition collapsed, killing eight and injuring sixty ot the crowd.

Perth, M>iy 1. Heavy floods are reporter! m the Lawlers district. The goldfields a< c isolated.

Sydney, May 1. A sensational attempt to rob tho Bank of New South Wales at Grenfell is reported. The manager, Mr Wilkinson, residing a!oau in the building, late last night wenl to I the back to attend to a horse, when a man presented a revolver and ordered him to bail up. Mr Wilkinson grappled with the man, who tired. The ballet onteiod the chest and defected under the shoulderblade. The man-igec reached an hotel, fainting after giving the alarm. Tho assailant mounted a horse and made good hid escape. The wound is serious.

Melbourne, May 1. In regard to the Cape CtibJe, the Chairman of the Chamber 01 Commerce said that it was most desirable, but if it could only ba obtained by ringing the chath knell oi" iha Pacific cable, it would be bettor without it.

Brisbane, Aprli 30. At the Marine Hoard inquiry into tho accident to the transport Manchester Port, the captain, chief officer, pilot and a number of others expressed the opinion that the rope had been tampered with. Shi^pi.33 oft rials decla?-e that the .Man- ] Chester Port's tow-line was -cut, bub | tho police are of opinion that it broke. 'The damage consists of a few bent plates and .rivets started. £L'Jde;j .vessel .is making allifctle water, n