CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 34, 9 February 1903, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

(Received 8.55 a.m.)

LONDON, February 8.

Lynch's counsel will not apply for a writ of error, preferring later on to petition the Crown for a free pardon.

Sir Salter Pyne, chief engineer to the Government of Afghanistan, attributes the detention of gun foldings at Peshawar to snows'on the Cabul roads. .

The election in South Antrim resulted in' the return of Mr. Craig, a Conservative, with 4504 votes. Mr. -Keightley, a follower of Mr. T. W. Russell, received 3G15.

In the event of the colonial sugar imports of Britain largely increasing, Austria and Germany notify tliat they reserve the right of submitting for settlement to the International Commission at Brussels Britain's interpretation regarding countervailing duties;

A Royal Commission, with Sir David Barbour as chairman, has been appointed to make an inquiry, into street locomotion in London, and the desirability of establishing some authority to control railway and tram schemes.

Imports of Mexican cattle into Great Britain have been forbidden.

The Board of Trade returns for January show that the imports decreased by £3,915,833 and that the exports increased by £634.462.