CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1899, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

The London 'Times,' commenting on the new Bulgarian Ministry, says M. Grekoff, the Tremier, intends to adopt a conciliatory policy. The London papers make eulogistic reference to the appointment of Lord Tennyson as Governor of South Australia. Lord Tennyson is the son of the great English poet of that mime, and acted as his father's private secretary.

Mr Cecil Khodes has left England for Egypt.

A Roman Catholic Conference held in Dublin supported the Irish University proposals. A.-- Dillon paid a high tribute to the disinterested action of Mr Gerald Balfour, Uuder-Secretary for Ireland, in regard to the proposed universities.

The Australasian Club held a conversazione at the Imperial Institute. Four hundred people were present, and the gathering' was a great success.

The Khalifa altered his course owing to lack of water. Colonel Kitcheuer has arrived :.t Abbah Island in pursuit.

Freiherr yon Hamruerstein-Loxten, Minister for Agriculture, speaking- in the Prussian Diet, declared that the international abandonment of sugar bounties would ultimately prove expedient.

Chinese financiers contribute 30 per cent, and Americans 25 per cent, towards the capital required to work the Pritehard-Morgan concessions.

The French Senate has ratified the commercial t catv with Ttalv.

Mr Chamberlain is indisposed. He is suffering from an attack of gout.