CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 304, 24 December 1898, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES.

A French adjutant and sergeant ■with eight Senegalese are sick at Fashoda. They will return by way of the i\ file in British gunboats. An article in the 'Fortnightly Review' says Lord Rosebery, like Disraeli, has transformed the principles of his party. Lord Rosebery established a continuous and strong foreign policy, believing- that consistency is the best means of safety and of national honour. The English War Office has ordered at Birmingham 50,000 shells and 7.000,000 cartridges. The French Chamber of Deputies has agreed to vote 76,000,000 fr~ncs for armaments and military renovations during the next year. Successful experiments with a submarine torpedo boat have been made at Toxilon. The vessel succeeded in striking the Magenta once when the battle ship was at anchor, and again when in.motion.

The French Chamber of Deputies discussed the commercial treaty with Italy to-day. M. Delcasse said it was important to France to have a friendly neighbour. The treaty was adopted by 451 to 45. The rate of postage on letters intended for the. officers and men on the Australian squadron will in future "be a penny. A general strike of grocers' assistants has taken place in Paris. The men demand 12 hours per day. Lord Iveagh has presented £250,000 to the Jenner Institute in aid of bacteriological;' research. Lord Iveagh's gifts to Dublin amount to £250,000. if. Dupxiy1 gives evidence before the Court of Cassation. .'. Mr Chamberlain considers there is a prospect of ./est Indian exports increasing to £2,000,000. Mr Chamberlain favours the establishment of an agency in Quebec. The 'MatiJi' states that London capitalists are largely financing Don Carlos. A Canadian eight-oared crew will compete at the Henley Eegatta next year. In the South Australian Parliament, on the motion of Mr Kingston, the House affirmed its right to appeal directly to the constituents by-means of the Referendiim. The overland telegraph line in Australia is interrupted". Splendid rain has fallen in the Hiverina central district of New South Wales,' and on the coast. The breaking of the drought is probable. The heavy rains are interfering with the railway and telegraphic communication of that colony.