Digest of Cable News

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3100, 19 September 1899, Page 7

Digest of Cable News

Friday Neva from the Bermudas states that a hurricane visited there, doing great damage, The directors of the Northern Investment Company of New Zealand have declared a dividend of 6 per cent. Guerin's for tt ess is nocfcurnally provisioned by means of a rope from the house opposite. Sir William Van Home, president of the Canadian Pacific railway, is making arrangements for a route from the Euaton Railway station, London, aoroaa the Atlantic, through Canada, across | the Pacific to Yokohama and Hongkong, and through Australia. The company will sell tickets for the entire route and guarantee through connections. Mr Lyne's new Ministry is made up as follows : — Mr Lyne, Premier and Treasurer ; Mi See, Chief Secretary ; Mr Wise, Attorney-general ; Me Hassall, Lands ; Mr O'Sullivan, Works ; Mr Fegan, Mines ; Mr Perry, Instruction ; Mr Wood, Justice ; Mr Crick, Podtma&ter-general. A cable states that the racehorses on board the ill-fated Thermopyls were injured in landing. The cargo is valued at close on £100,000. The wool arrivals for the next serieß of sales at London are 237.000 bales. Saturday The British Association for the Advancement of Science have voted £1000 towards the projected Anfcartic expedition. Charles Griffen Dean, cashier of the Bank of Australasia, London, pleaded guilty to embezzling the funds of the Bank, and was sentenced to five years imprisonment. The American visible supply of wheat is 50,922,000 bushels. The New Zealand Shipping Company are building two 8000-ton steamers, capable of carrying 100,000 carcases of mutton each. The Czar's proposed visit to the Emperor of Q-ermany has been postponed owing to the unsettled condition of France. He expressly directed the extensions of the courtesies and hospitality given to the crew of H.M.S. Melita. Mr Hay, secretary of State, asserts that the feeling in America towards Great Britain is more friendly than ever, but that the nations are not likely to enter into any entangling alliances. The vessel ashore on Buffalo reef South Australia is the local schooner Lucretia. She lies high and dry. At the Brisbane wool sales 4000 Bales were submitted, and nearly all sold. Prices generally were good. The highest price for scoured — la llfd — is said to be a record for Australia. Monday: The enforcement of the measures for the suppression of the plague at Kolapore India, a Native State, led to an attempt to poison the British Resident. President M'Kinley is alarmed a^ the existence of the widespread of antiImperialism in America. Mr John Sherman, ex-Secretary of State, created a sensation in New York by eulogising the Filipinos for having shown their i capicity for selfgovercment.