CABLE BREVITIES.
S. M. Sharwood, of Brisbane, won the lon°" jump and throwing the hammer at the" Cambridge University Freshmen's Sports. Mr Cecil Rhodes intends to extend the railway just opened to Buluwayo through Matabeleland to the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, with the object of tapping some extensive forests and magnificent
coalfields. . •*"*" . Anderson has been sentenced at Sydney to seven years for embezzling money belonging to Henry Bull and Company. lir J. F. Hogan, M.P. for the Middivision of Tipperary, in a letter to the "London Standard," says the Queensland separation movement is approaching a victorious consuiimiation. The British Board of Trade returns for the month of October show that the imports decreased by £631,127,. and ..the exports decreased by £1,400,405 compared with the same month of last year. The balance-sheet of the British Broken Hill Company shows a profit of £15,083. A dividend of one shilling per share has been declared.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 260, 9 November 1897, Page 5
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