CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 86, 13 April 1899, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES.

'Figaro' states that Dr. Bras, the well-known bacteriologist, has cultivated the cancer microbe.

The Canadian Government is introducing a Bill giving power to co-oper-ate with Britain and the Australasian colonies in the construction of the Pacifice cable.

Mr Vanderbilt's mansion at Long Island, where his son was residing diiring his honeymoon, has been' destroyed by fire, which was the work of an incendiary.

The New South Wales Ministry entertained General Booth at luncheon!

The Tyser Company has received news of the death of Captain Stevenson, formerly commander of the Star of Victoria.

Mr James Sexvice.' ex-Premier of Victoria, is dead, aged 76. The Full Court in Melbourne allowed the appeal from the decision of Mr Justice Holroyd, who refused to amend the cyanide specification. An appeal to the Privy Council is regarded as inevitable. Whilst unloading at Launceston a log struck McDougall, the second mate of the brig Stanley, the wellknown New Zealand trader, killing him. His sister resides at Invercargill. The closing of the higher educational institutions in Kussia has affected 30,000 students. A section of the students issued a. seditions proclamation, but the majority disavow any connection with it. Amongst the students expelled from St. Petersburg are 200 girls

In consequence of his being1 summoned to Paris, Adjutant Lockrimier, who was secretary to Colonel Henry, committed suicide.. , The Queen returns from her visit to the South of France on May Oth. Archdeacon Stretch, aged 82, died at Melbourne yesterday.