CABLE BREVITIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XVIII, Issue 4364, 6 December 1897, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

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Oapjstown, December 3 Mr Cecil Rhodes intends to visit Europe, consequently be will not be a candidate at the fortheouairg "election in Cape Colony. London, December 4 The Vioar of Bathampton, a suburb of Bath, in a letter to The Times, appeals to the colony of New South Wales to take steps to worthily mark the last resting place of Admiral Philip as one of the makers of Greater Britain. Presiding at a meeting of the British Empire Trade League, the Duke of Devonshire said Government should arrange for the enrolment of colonial seaman in the naval reserve. Addressing a meeting of Liberals at Guilford, Surrey, Mr Herbert Gladstone said if they desired to win at the next election they must be Liberals first and Home Rulers and local optionists afterwards. He added that the question of the House of Lords' power of veto was of tbe first importance. It has transpired that the crew of the Margate lifeboat, who were j drowned during the recent gales,! neglected to use their lifebelts. j A French Anarchist named Brosette has been murdered at Longacre, London. He was suspected of being a spy. It is reported from Berlin that Great Britain enquired if Germany was willing to cede her protectorate rights in New Guinea, and a reply was given in the negative. Pretoria, December 3 , Herr Klotze, who was mentioned I some time ago as a probable successor ! to Dr. Jbeyds, as Secretary of State of j the Transvaal, speaking here, said the Uifclandens ought to have a .share in the political privileges of the Republic, and be granted equality at law with the inhabitants of the country.

Sydney, December 4 * Tha Government meteorologist, Mr Wragge, and a party have left to establish a high pressure observatory on Mount Kosicusko. They are experiencing a rough time, and are detained half way up the mountain by a heavy snowstorm. The Olub swinging contest at Newcastle, between Bax, the New Zeafander, and Jack Griffiths, of Cobar, began on Friday morning, and resulted in a draw, both going well at midnight on Saturday when they dropped their clubs, easily beating the world's record. The New Zealander showed superior j aMU throughout. During the contest j Bax'_ backer lodged a protest that Griffiths was not doiDg the stipulated /fifty revolutions a minute. The Com'tUittee decided they had no jurisdiction in the matter. Bbisbane, December 4. The Executive Council has commuted the death sentence passed on Wherrill, for the murder of his wife at Brisbane, to twenty years' imprisonment. Hobart, December 4 The body of William Small has been found in a waterhole at Mngai with his head battered in. At the inquest a verdict of murder was returned, and Jb]ho Beckett, Small's mate, has been \ arrested iv- connection with the crime.