CABLE BREVITIES.
Many American cotton employers have notified their employees of an intended 10 per cent, reduction in wages. The Foreign Ambassadors are preparing a new scheme of autonomy for Crete, which will provide for the appointment of a Christian Governor for a term of five years with power to fix the taxes. The scheme also provides for the payment of an annual tribute to the Sultan.
The Committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club have recommended that Mr F. C. Lacey, of Cambridge University and Hampshire, lie appoined Secretary of the Club, in succession to Mr 11. Perkins, who recently resigned.
Direct telephonic communication ha; been established between Sydney and New castle.
A Canadian cruiser received 13 of the crew of the American steamer Cleveland, which was wrecked at Barclay Sound, British Columbia.
The sentence of 20 months' imprisonment for sedition recently passed on the editor of the vernacular paper, " Saikaf," published in Cairo, has been reduced to six months.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 298, 23 December 1897, Page 2
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