CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 1 April 1899, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

WilseQ is to be charged with the. murder' oi the boy Hill nt Oxley.

President Kruger^ accompanied by his Ministers, will visit Johannesburg during the Easter holidays. Tho balance-sheet of the Australian and KeSv Zealaad Mortgage Company chews a debit balance of £4,749.

Mr Cobbold, a traveller who was expelled frpni the Pumirs, found Russia I'eady, in the event of the Ameer's deathj to annex North Afghanistan. The Imperial Parliament has adjourned till April 10. Mi' i&farais, an Afrikander, won the Sievewright beat at Stellenbosch. The defeat ol Sir J. Sievewright is attributed to his absence in England.

William Vuuderbilt, the American millionaire, has made a wedding gift of £2,000,000 sterling to his son.

Mr Cecil Rhodes has donated £50 to the Sir George Grey memorial.

Mr Charles Slaughter, counsel, for the late West Australian Aborigines' Protection Board, in a letter to the 'St. James' Gazette,' says the administration of justice for the northern part of the colony towards aborigines, Chinese, and Japanese, is.a horrible farce.

Mr Thompson, manager of the Tonga Trading Company, says the impression jn the islands is that the Tauranga's mission means a British protectorate. The late Vincent Leon bequeathed £ 50,000, for the purpose of extending the reading-room of the British Museum, £50,000 to the British Public Library, and £20,000 to Muller's orphanages, . j

British quarterly revenue returns amount to £39,516,875, including Customs £5,270,272, excise £8,474,000, Btamps £2,030,000

The New Zealand Shipping Company will in future only use steamers in their trade. The ships Turakina, Opawa, and Waitangi have already been sold.

Herr Beriningen has been appointed Governor of German New Guinea,'

The Times states that Sir M. Hicks Beach is CQnfronted with. a probable deficit of £2,500,000. . _ ';; The 'Times' says of the Australians' re'cent wonderful batting and bowling feats that they indicate the Englishmen have a severe task to recover their honours.

Mills, the well known tobacco manufacturers at Bristol, have paid the Customs g. cheque for £ igo.OOO, for tobacco clearances. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has petitioned Lord Salisbury against sugar bounties. • . . ■ | The scores in the billiard championship match at the end of the tenth day's play were: Eoberts, 15,002. A meeting of shareholders of the Australian Gold Trust resolved voluntarily to go into liquidation. The Intercolonial Commercial Travellers' Association annual conference opened at Sydney to-day. Gratification was expressed at New Zealand for the first time being repreSfinted. 6- ■

The New South Wales Political and Labour League has made compulsory ' arbitration, on New \ Zealand lines one of its fighting planks.. The Premier of Victoria hopes to end the financial year with a quarter million surplus. Nine months' receipts are £245,000 in excess of the