CABLE BREVITIES.
Four hundred Matabele were killed in the fight on Sunday. Several Spanish cities will voluntarily contribute vessels to the navy in imitation of bhe example _eb by Barcelona. Two hundred of the men ab work on the Smyrna Railway wore massacred by the Khurds. ',-.' " The death of M. Jules Sim cm, the eminent French statesman and litterateur, iB announced.
The New South Wales Government is appointing a commission of coalmining: and shipping experts to inquire into the >w»use of the fires which ho.ye been so freqaeifct in coal ships recently. \ The "Times" says the delay thab jbas taken place in holding the Cable Conference may entail the loss of a year. Martin, the American cyclist, paced by a tandem, did half a. mile in lmin 1 4-stl'*i sec, and mile in 2min 3 2-sbh sec, OO Brisbane yesterday, breaking Zimmerman 'a record.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 135, 10 June 1896, Page 5
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