CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 59, 10 March 1903, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Porte is engaging German officers to reorganise the Turkish gendarmerie. The Pope has received 10,000 pilgrims.

Bishop Treves has withdrawn his threat to excommunicate parents who persisted in sending their children to the Prussian High School.

A Lascar on a Bombay steamer died of plague at Capetown after the passengers had landed.

The Premier is closing the Good Shepherd Convent, and will bring about legislation respecting 23 similar institutions. '

Owing to the expiration of the Bridgwater trust, the Earl of Ellesmere has inherited the Dulce of BridgewateriS^vast canal properties.

Forty thousand Lancashire and Cheshire miners are prepared to support the South Wales colliers if they strike for increased wages.

The Popes benediction at the jubilee festival was phone-graphed, and he has authorised the reproduction of cylinders and their sale in aid of charities.

Terrible snowstorms have occurred in Samara and hundreds of people have been killed.

As the result of a ferry accident, 80 people were precipitated into the Hudson River at Spiers' Falls, and 19 were drowned.

The Ameer has forbidden anyone to have more than four wives. He has divorced all his except the daughters of four leading generals.

The railway conference at Johannesburg approved of the construction of seven lines, GBB miles long, costing £5.161.000. It is estimated that 30,000 natives will be utilised in railway work.

Mr Morgan is building a marble museum at a cost of 10.000.000 dollars, adjoining his New York residence, for the reception of his art treasures.