CABLE BREVITIES.
The German Emperor has cabled his sympathies to Mr Kudyard Kipling.
The Right Hon. Lord Penzance, Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court, has resigned.
Mnjor-General Hutton, Commandant of the Forces of Canada, in a speech at a banquet at Toronto, said he intended to ask Sir Wilfrid Laurier to organise a national army.
A trust is being" arranged in New York with a capital of ten millions to sectire the -woollen worsted factories, of America.
The treatment accorded the New Zealand cricket team in Sydney will be a matter for discussion at the next
meeting of the N.S.W. Cricket Association.
In connection with the recent Melbourne fire a youth -named Hill, aged 19, has confessed that while working at Henty's he placed a lamp near some straw, and on looking round shortly after saw the straw in flames. He was frightened- at what occurred, and left the cellar. He did not inform anyone.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 55, 7 March 1899, Page 5
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