CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 18 January 1899, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Father Chiniquy is dead

Madame Ledebur has made n statement to the effect that the girl Ambrose died of epileptic fits. Richard Craven, mining' millionaire and racehorse-owner, ,'ied in Sydney yesterday. He was 53 rears old. M. de Blowitz, the Times' Paris correspondent,' declares that the Court of Cassation will order Dreyfus to be tried by a fresh court-martial. He is convinced Dreyfus will receive a fair trial.

Li Hung- Chang-, the w^ell - known Chinese statesman, is ill.

Whyte, legal manager of a mining company at Gippsiand, who is wanted on a charge of forgery of scrip, has been arrested at Capetown.

Butler, who was arrested in Auckland on a charge of appropriation of 1 the funds of a- Newcastle company, has ■■,< been committed for trial.

me cricket match, Queensland v. South Australia, concluded yesterday. ' The South Australians won by an V innings and 281 runs. Their "first"] innings realised 582. Queensland re-. J plied in their second Innings with 193..'?;.,. The Czar sought an interview with i Count Tolstoi, the celebrated novelist, I and discussed the peace . conference t with him. Count Tolstoi favouredthe idea. . ;. Father Battenbour^, Chief of -the I French Lazarists, is likely to be appointed Apostolic Delegate to Pekin. I The German missionaries will he subordinate to him.

The first six months' working of the Accidents Compensation Act .-howl ■ that fatal accidents increased 12 1-11 *."'„ per cent., and injuries to workmen by S| 43 per cent. J\lr Pilkington (Conservative) has,; been elected unopposed to the House.;; of Commons for the Newton division ' of South West Lancashire. Lloyds' \mderwriters, for the purpose of their shipping- register, will allow marine surveyors to survey steamers fitted with refrigerating machinery employed in the Homa trade from colonial ports.