CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 178, 30 July 1898, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The House of Ldrds has passed the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill. The Prince of Wales is now free from pain, and is improving, Commodore Tachlouris has been acquitted of the charge of culpable inactivity during the war with Turkey. Mr Chamberlain states that the Government are considering the advisableness of appointinga Committee of Inquiry into the French shore question in NeWfOUndland- ... -I __ • • i.! The Agents-General intend to jointly re- ( quest the War Office to recognise Australian leather as British. ",,'«,, Lord Winchelsea denies Mr Hooleys statement that he received £10,000 in connection with companies. ' . Five men were overcome by carbonic gas in Block 12 mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Three men, named Kelly, Albertson, and another, descended at great risk and gallantly rescued their comrades, who are now recovering. _ Mr Wragge reports that an Antarctic disturbance is now affecting the ocean between Hobart and Bluff. , . Captain Robert, against whom the Marine Board reported in connection with the wreck of the Wendouree, has had his exemption certificate cancelled, with permission to be re-examined in six months. Senator Davies, Chairman of the United States Senate's Foreign Committee, welcomed the increasingly friendly relations with the English race. Under great pressure, he saidj a great jump had been made in the evolution of feeling.