CABLE BREVITIES.
Marconi and certain Copenhagen financiers have arranged for ethergrams between Ireland and Scotland.
Gotz, who was recently arrested at Milan on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of M. Sipiaguine, the Russian Minister for the Interior, has been released.
Natal abolishes transit duty in June under the Customs Convention.
The forthcoming Transvaal loan is quoted on the Stock Exchange at £ per cent, premium. ...........
Two men at Kiandra, on the. South Coast of New South Wales, picked' up a nugget weighing 2lb.
The Governor-General of Australia and the New South Wale-; Governor will visit Norfolk Island in the middle of next month.
Tlie Federal revenue for the quarter is £3,012,000, and the expenditure £909,000. The Commonwealth has returned £2.043,000 to the States.
A terrific, storm has occurred at Berlin, many panes of glass being smashed, and telegraph communication with Denmark and Russia interrupted.
Heavy snowstorms have been experienced in Austria, causing immense de struetion of vineyards and orchards.
An earthquake shock has been experienced at Colon, in Panama.
Corea has granted a Belgian syndicate railway and raining concessions on payment of £00,000 sterling annually.
Sir Thomas Lipton's confidence in Shamrock 111. is unshaken. He declares that it has already been proved to be the fastest and best of the three challengers.
The "'Daily Express" states that incalculable loss has been caused in the Bordeaux district by frost, which has blackened two-thirds of the budding vines at Gironde.
Austria-Hungary, with the view of conciliating Hungary's independent party, is introducing a two-year army service, beginning in 1904, instead of the three years at present obtaining. The alteration will add sixty million kroner to the estimates.
Chen Chunksuan, Viceroy of Szechuan, has been transferred toi a similar capacity at Kwangsi. Diplomatists in Pekin consider the appointment an excellent one. Hsiliang has been transferred to Szechuan.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 94, 21 April 1903, Page 5
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