CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 56, 8 March 1899, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Queen starts for Boulogne on Thursday. Mr Rudvard Kiplings, two daughters have been attacked by pneumonia.. Josephine, the elder one, has succumbed. President McKipley, and many leadino--. men, attended the funeral service of Lord Herschell at St; Pauls Episcopal Church. : An interesting relic has been discovered at some excavations in Sydney, in the shape of the foundation stone of the first Government 'House. The inscription on the. copper plate sets forth that the stone was. laid by Governor Philip on May 15, 1788. Advices have been received that the English football team sails on May 4, and arrives in Sydney on June 14. The team plays New South Wales on June 17.

The British Government proposes to establish post office telephones, commencing in Eondon, at an outlay of £2,000,000. The annual subscription will be £3, with the imposition of a small toll. This is the outcome of the recent, agitation in London against the present, system, which is in the hands of private enterprise. M. Mazean, first President of the Court of Cassation, has appointed if. Beaupre, successor to Beaupeare, as President of the Civil Chamber, to re-r port- upon evidence in the Dreyfus inquiry.

Kipling has not yet been informed of his daughter's death. The Home Secretary has sanctioned the opening of the Druce vault. The Queen thanked President. McEinley for the. honours shown the late Lord Herchell and for the friendly sympathy of America over his 'death.