CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 172, 21 July 1903, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The German cruiser Condon, which is to relieve the Formoran in Australian waters, has arrived at Fremantle.

Mr King, the former Chief Magistrate of Norfolk Island, left Tambo for Sydney, -where his daughter is to be married. With the complicity of the master :ircnourer of the Sofia arsenal, agents of the Macedonian Committee abstracted 60 rifles. The thieves were arrested in crossing the frontier. The causes of the resignation of Bishop Moorhouse were his age and the fact that he is suffering from a bronchial affection. The departure of the Monowai from Melbourne lias been postponed till one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, in order that correspondence may be forwarded by the express leaving for Sydney on Wednesday evening. Mr Aylesworth, a leading Toronto barrister, has replaced the late Chief Justice Armour on the Alaskan Boundary Commission. A large river steamer has been burned at Nijninovgorod, and fifty out of two hundred passengers are missing. The Cunard Steamship Company's shareholders will be asked at a meeting to be held on the 29th inst. to amend the articles of association so as to ensure the company remaining essentially British, The education committee of the London County Council recommends a definite annual grant for the proposed technir cal schools for London, leaving any deficit to be met from other sources. The American press and public do not resent Russia's refusal to receive the Kishineff petition, considering that the object of the petition has been attained. _