CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 283, 28 November 1896, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

News baa been received from Capetown that Lord Rosetnead (better known ac Sir Hercules Robinson) is ill, and that ib is reported that bis condition is bo serious as to cause greak anxiety to his friends. The Sultan ia laid to bo delighted at the failure of the French tcheme for placing the Forte's finances under European control. At Sydney Jerome has been committed for trial on two charges of forging promissory notes.

Ab Melbourne Cameron, who confessed to forging a will, and soother witness H»med Oracknell, in the same case, have bean convicted and sentenced to five years' imprisonment each. The Bovril Company wa« largely ororscribod.

"Wag" Harding has challenged Gaudaur to row for the championship of the world at £220 aside.

Obituary: Coventry Patmora, author, and Sir F. Napier Broome. Tha Mayor of Melbourne received a cable tues9&ga from Mr Soddon, expressing Bympathy wish aufferara in the recent fire. Tho wives and familiea of «ome of the nsao drowned off Maria Island, Tasmania, are utterly destitute, and a public subscription h4B been opened. The Government havo given a donation of £109, and will alo subiidire a public subscription £1 for £1. Several of tho victims were connected with the polios force. The British cruiser Jacquea has been sent fco tha Phillipines, to reinforce the Daphne. Tho eaabasnie9 are sending foreigners to recruit Cretan gendarmerie, despite the Sultan's protest.