Telegraphic

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 2, 5 June 1900, Page 3

Telegraphic

Ottawa, June 1. Unparalled for Q si; Sres are raging in Northern Ontario. There is immense destruction of timber.

Hong Kon&, June 1. Many warships, chiefly Russian, have assembled at Tientsin. The Chartered Bank of Tientsin was set on fire, but was extinguished. It is believed to have been the work of aa incendiary. A serious situation has developed in southern Algeria. Several thousand Moors are marching to Ajennader. Seven hundred Boxers on Thursday attacked thirty foreigners, including six ladies, who VvPre escaping in boats from Paofcingfu, eighty miles south west of Pekin. Four of the foreigners were killed and many wounded. It is believed that Russia hoped to seize a position controlling the Peiho river on the pretext of crushing the Boxers, which was stopped by American and German intervention. Tsnng-li-Yamen reluctantly admitted 200 marines from each Power to guard the Embassies at Pekin. .Thers are 23 warships assembled off Taka with 1100 troops aboard, Nino are Russian warships.

Tie Powers are threatening to override the Tsung-li-Yamen's opposition to their recent representation that the Boxers must be suppressed. A special train from Tiemt-ia conveyed bodies of marines and blue jackets to guard the British, Russian and other and also live quick-fiiers tp Pekin.

PaKis, Juno 2. An official message indicates that Kn.ma.si is relieved. Governor Hodgson's parLy, including the wounded, are journeying to the coasfc.

Calcutta, June 2. Twenty-seven hundred died of cholera at Kaira and Gujerah, in tihe Bombay Presidency, during May. The mortality in the central ' piovmces and Berar is very bad.

Capetown Juno 2. The Union Steamship Company's new steamer Kakapo, which is in ballast, is ashore at Simonstown, and a probable loss.

Sydney, June 1. A boy named Murphy was found guilty of murdering another boy named McFarlane at Graf ton, and was recommended to mercy on account of his youth. The accused was unmoved when sentence of I death was passed. .

Brisbane, June 1. Seven men weie entombed by a fall of earth in a railway cutting at Cairns. Three were extricated' dead, and one seriously injured. The others are still entombed. I