CABLE BREVITIES.
LONIX)N, December 31
Sir J. P. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, has been appointed trustee for Mr Phipps' gift to indigent Boers the amount Sf which has been remitted to South Africa.
CAPETOWN, January 1
There have been thirteen cases of small pox at Capetown in three days. LONDON, January 1.
The Emir of Sokoto (West Africa) is dead. His successor is friendly towards the British.
VIENNA, December 31
The Austrian and Hungarian Premiers have arranged a compromise over the Ausgleich (the- agreement under which the two States are united under a common head). It is beis victorious in the matter.
LONDON, January 1
The Great Fingal Company lias deferred paying , an interim dividend pending a scrutiny of the scrip, some of which has been forged. NEW YORK, January 1. The United States Treasury hold* £123,000,000 in gold.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 2 January 1903, Page 5
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