CABLE NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIV, Issue 300, 21 March 1903, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« 111 I TJHITED PREBB ABBOOIATIOW. (By Eleotric Telegraph— Copyright.) London, March if?. Tha London Times' New York correspondent says that the abrogation of the Claytcn-Bulwer treaty largely helped the ratification of the Panama Canal Bill. The Orotava, which collided with the steamer Netherby at Gibraltar, proceeded to Marseilles. t The official returns show that there were 625 aliens in English and Welsh prisons on March 2nd. The/ represented three per cent of the prison population. One hundred and two had received sentences of five years and upwards. The maintenance of aliens cost the country L 30.000 per annum. March 20. Klosowski, alias Chapman, has beon sentenced to be banged for poisoning the women Marsh, Spinks, and Taylor. Mr Justioe Grantham, in sentencing him, animadverted on the carelessness of the doctors in the cases and added that the discovery of the crime* was doe to the efforts of Miss Marsh's parents. Samuel Herbert Dongal, an Army pensioner, has been charged at Saffron Waldeu with forging a cheque and embezzling the moneys of Miss Emilia Holland, a wealthy lady with whom Dougal lived at Moat Farm, Clavering, and who mysteriously disappeared in 1899. The police are now dragging the moat in the vicinity of the house. NettYobk, March 20. Whittakec Wright's application for .bail was refused. Berlin, March 19. The Reichstag basreduced Germany's military expenses in connection with China, to three million marks. Belgrade, Maroh 19. King Alexander of Servia has ordered four officers, including the late Minister of Var, to challenge Professor Boris* layevics to a duel to the death for accusing officers of obtaining promotion by servility to Queen Draga. Melbourne, March 20. At the annual meeting of the Howard Smith Company, the profits were shown to be over L 30.000. A dividend of five per cent, on preference shares and ten per cent on ordinary shares was deolared. The chairman said the prospects of a profitable business were not favourable. In order to economise the company had laid up steamers rather than run them unprofitdbly, which policy they intended to pursue if necessary. Brisbane, March 20. Half a million of Treasury Bills have been placed. (Received — This day,, 8.50 a.m.) Vibnna, March 20. Austrian opinion declaies that the King of Saxony's references to Princess Louie's cruelty were unnecessary.