Telegraphic.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 43, 8 September 1900, Page 3

Telegraphic.

Kockhampton, September 5. Smith, a well-known jockey, ia reveiage foe the Jockey Club refusing to remove his disqualification, shot Mr Henderson, a member ol the Committee, in the stomach. The wound is serious. Smith fled.

Sydney, September 5. The Anglican General Synod has concluded its sittings. A resolution was adopted giving the clergy a free hand to use the revision of the Bible. The question of the .abolition of the Primate's veto was referred to a coinmictee to'report. The Governors bailed up aad had dinner with a settler near Nuntle. A punitive party of civilians, who ■were were armed, arrived, aart the murderers, after firing two shot?, escaped, leaving everything but their rilies. Sir W. Lyne, in reply fo $, ques-t-ion in reference to Mr | refusal to allow Austriaas/ to pro- , ceed to New Zealand, said^hat his hands were tie«. He ' GOfLp. - not prevent them landing here, t^e only test -under the Aliens Act being eligibility to write their names. A private cable announces that the Bey Howard Smith and wife Australian missionaries, are safe at Pekin.

September 6. Mail advices state that the Secretary of War intimated that an examination disclosed thairsamples of New South Wales leather were soft and powai and generally unsuitable far army purposes, therefore he was not prepared to authorise the inclusion of Australian leather in Mae Wa* Department specifications, bat was willing -to consider other samples. The city sewers are *egftlarly fumigated as a precaution ■ttgaiast the recurrence of the pia#uo-. The operations prove that there are very few rafr&v

The- Governor, Ministers and Member of both Houses of the New Zealand Parliament will be among those invited to attend the Commonwealth inauguration ceremonies. Hugh Dixon, of Suinuaerhill, has presented the Baptist Union with £10 6 JO for an aged aud infi:m ministers fund. The balance of his 63ta1,9 ia distributed amoug various funds 1 .

Brisbane, September 5. Forty-eight Austrians, originally in beaded for New Zealand, came here. Messrs Bert and Co. laave forwarded 500 bullocks and 800 sheep fco China. All the stock, excepting 200 sheep, which the firm are sending for sale on their owe account, were shipped to the order, of a Sydney office. It is understood that the stock are for -the German troops.

September 6. In the Assembly a complaint wafc made that the defence yote of £290,000 was double that for charitable institutions. The Hon. J. H. Dickson said that the Eastern complications necessitated the increase.

TWftSDAtf Island, Sept. 6. files give details of the wreck of the Fatuuai Maru. The steamer went ashore at Point Kala-v-ite at midnight on August 17th. The night was very dark, with heavy wind and rain squalls, and took the ground very easily, close

in shore. The disaster is attributed to a strong current carrying her out of her course, which should have cleared the land by several miles. The fcrew and passengers, numbering 150, including eight Europeans, landed. Oamp was formed" and stores, mails and specie landed.; It was two days Up fore the natives discovered the wreck. Tl:ey offered rice and fruit to the castaways. ' The steamer Australia turned up , the following Thursday and took' away the passengers and half the crew, the others staying by the vessei, which was broken ill two. It was impossible to a s"av6 her from total loss. IS hip and cargo were insured for £200,000.

Ivans' Witches Oil, A. scientific com bination of essential oils ; greatest pain ' destroyer. Wholesale agents, Kempttiorne & Frostier. Ta&sicura cures "bronchitis, catarr of the luugs, oppression of the chesfe, etc., sold all chemists. Tussicura has become a household remedy throughout the colony for diseases of throat and lungs. No home should be without this invalXiable remedy, which saves many live&. 3?or outward application use Witches' Oil. Cough! Cough! Cough! Don't cough-, take Tussicura, a remedy for fell throat and lung troubles. Evans 1 Witches' Oil, best remedy for {Jain in the back, rheumatism, neuralgia, chillblains, bronchitis, colds ; price, 2s 6d. All chemists. Tussicura (Wild Cherry Balm) ; -a marvellous remedy for a winter cough or colds *i powerful stimulant and tonic.

La'msdorf's Circular to the Po^ states thai at lha cutset I>nssiaj|j down principles for the "guidaucfi the Allies, to \vhich all agreed. fM statement is interpreted as"; Russian claim to paramountcyi China. Germany awaits G?k Britain, and Great Britain s^g Sir Claud McDonalds repotti the situation. * y ' Septembers-; The Powers are eliciting it views of the Ministers and Cob manders at Pekin, as reganl&J position and the proposed drawal. ? - It is suspected that the Chk are delaying cypher messages. .' Bept. 6.; The Fourth Brigade of InjjJ troop., proceed to China fortbitl British opinion applauds jj despatch of Indian reinfoiccmt^ Tokio, Pepttujberf. Japnnese 'oflicers, watching jj fighting round Tientsin, lcmaitj on the British perse\ etance a coolness under all circunistaiift The French were full of dash tj gallantry, ( but lacked perse\eracj The British -at Hofsitvu gals an easy victory. Ihe Jap B^ she lied the position and occupy with little opposition, {ho entsj abandoning four guns. - The Bengal Lancers wtnt) pursuit and came in contract Hi Chinese Cavalry, which they romej with heavy loss. It is now staled that the dam at Tientsin is not serious. \ reports that the town was flostrojd are untrue. Sydney, Septembers. A private eabie announces ft| the Eev. Howaid Smith and l| ■wife, Australian missionaries. \ safe at Pekin.