Telegraphic

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 144, 12 May 1900, Page 3

Telegraphic

-London. May ! 9. News has been received that some Chinese tfffi'eials --instigated the populace to attack the section of the Burmo-Ohinese boundary commission's -caiaaijps - under \ Commissioner Philpe. The assailants were repulsed, ldsing 30 killed,. Major Pen rose, and four men of the neiv^Chinese regiment,"* guarding fche - 'camps, wounded, The regiment behaved splendidly. Four Englishmen who ascended Vesuvius during an eruption were injured by lava. The f venture was undertaken in the "face of a "warning. The meet are^now m the hospital is a critical condition. At a dinner given I'by1 'by the Conservative Club- to Mr Goschen, the latter declared that our Australian kinsmen 'were co#partnßrs ie the Empire, through 4£e ties- fQHfled on the battlefield. He stated that the colonial officers afe the front bore bfrillistnt testimotyy to this idea.

H6K<5' r K<*NG t Ma£9. .China ►has-been compelled to assent' to Russia building t<s fctiG Kiacho-Pekin riilwtffy.* „,

PABis, "May '9. Extreme opponents of the Government won nine seats at fcbe Paris municipal elections.

I ' Sydney, May l'O. The Gurinedah" Colliery is on fire. While tea-'Haen were -'engaged -in 1 blocking the mine to extinguish the ifire an explosion of fire damp occurred, severely injuring' fcbree. £The others -were bruised. "XiiBANY, Msy'-iO. News "by the" mail states that; Governor Hodgson has learned where' 'the golden stool' is' secreted, pp f or which search was made ~ since . the defeat; of King Prempoh. The sfcool was an entbiofti of Ashatati royitity. Natives beli^vfed that if ife was lost 'no king wouhi-ever again reign them.

MELfiHurfKE, M&y 10. Me Watt has received the full repSttof the Pacific Cable Boardit The first objection taken to the Cape Cidbler is that it would diminish the traffic of the Pacific cable whe"n " completed. It is -painted -out that if. the Pacific cable obtained anything like^Ue-third of* the -whole of traffic, and it is* estimated ,thac it -will in reality get five- twelfths of the business^ the conditions on wMtib. a ,<prugr&ssi:ve ''decrease of 2s 6d ! a , -tford " is promised "by 'the lOastern Wxtensien Cempaay would never -be realised, but might -ba practically disregarded. The Boar^ contemplates a-Trate 4> ef ,2s fo? "Ordinary messages ovet '"tbe Pacific cable itself, and a through rate of 3s, so fchat ' the construction of the Paoisc*eable*would ptob^ably secure theiefluctibn-s Xf^ere^-^bf^ti^com-pany. f * "%^ • Word "has been "t§c eivad Leongrtha that a vessel^in^ballast, from 'Capeto"***! to « ewcasfcle', i^ ashore bet-ween Gape Lipteag, and Cape Patterson. T-he -crew "ot™*^, are reported- safe. Incoming steamers 'Tgport 'leti&c weather irr the straits. , &he wreck '•at Gape Patterson is j the German barque Magnet. !T £he Magnet was wrecked- 1 about the same time as the Srerra Nevada. She is intact'£ad,is in no immediate danger, though a fairly heavy sea is running. The'erew- j &re safe. ,