CABLEGRAMS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXV, Issue 1309, 23 June 1899, Page 6

CABLEGRAMS.

The Auckland Electric Tramway Company has been registered with a capital of L 150,000.

At the military tournament at Dublin some of the New South Wales Lancers competed. In lemon cutting Corporal Harkus secured first prize.

Signor Marconi made a successful trial of wireless telegraphy, communicating with the shore from a ship 42 miles distant.

In a spepch at the Albe regatta the Kaiser declarrd that the German people w«»re like a thoroughbred — they suffrred nobody to bridle them, and always main'ainrd the I^-ad.

S°rvift l has prpsented a sharp note to thf Porto, with the rfsult that a Mixed Commission investigates the Jablonica incident.

The Imperial United Express has covered the journey from Montreal to Vancouver in 100 honrs by reducing stoppages. Thi? brings the Pacific Coast within 10 days of London

The Chinese rioters massacred a missionary named Phillips, together with his wife, baby and thrre converts, at ICienvang, in the province of Fokein.

In the parliamentary by-election Mr De War, Liberal, succeeded Mr Cox, (deceased) for Edinburgh South by a majority of 831.

The Sydney meat exporters have arranged for a consolidation sale of frozen meat in London. The capital has been privately subscribed to erect slaughtering works at Black<own, near Sydney. They will be the largest in Australia.

The Reichstag have agreed to an extension of the commercial vivendi with Britain for one year.

Though the mine which explodpd in Nova Scotia has been flooded, it is still burning fiercely, and it is feared that the remainder of the entombed men have perished.

General Mercier has addressed the French Fatherland League, affirming the, independence of the court-martial to be held at Rennes for the retrial of Dreyfus, and declaring that military justice is the highest and most intangible institution in Franco. General Mercier describes himself as the standard-bearer of the army, and promises to make a clean breast of his part in the Dreyfus case at the Rennes trial.

The Chingtu sailed from Foochow on Monday with two million pounds of tea for Australia. The market has been cleared of all the first crop of fine teas. Common kinds are scarce and dear.

In connection with the choosing of a snccessor to the Pop?, the Cardinals' Consistory at Rome have chosen Dine Italian and two foreign cardinals from whom the final choice will be made, thus insuring that the next Pope shall be an Italian.

Latest reports from Hongkong state that Mr Phillips and party, who were supposed to have been murdered, are safe, including Miss Searl, an Australian missionary.