CABLE BREVITIES.
Mr Chamberlain, speaking in Boston, said the federation of the AngloSaxon race was drawing near. President McKinley proposes ■to create a Secretary for the Colonies. He will be a Cabinet Minister.
The personalty of the late Woolf Joel, recently shot dead in Johannesburg, has been sworn at £122,665. . Jack Hellings, the Australian swimmer, won the 50 3 Tards scratch race at Westminster Baths easily by 4yds. Time, 30 2-sth sec.
The Carnegie Steel Company is erecting a big gun factory at Homestead, Pennsylvania, to compete with Krupp, the great German manufacturer.
President Eruger, in bidding farewell to Mr Steyn, President of the Orange Free State, said he was glad the Afrikanders in Cape Colony had remained loyal to the flag which Mr Rhodes had trod in the mire.
The steamer Express, while leaving Sydney for Napier, collided with a ferryv boat, and damaged her stem. She has returned for repairs.
Captain Savage, and mate Fawcet, of the steamer Cintra^ were tried at Sydney and found not guilty of manslaughter, arising out of the CintraKoruna collision.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1898, Page 5
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