CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9108, 8 March 1898, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

77w.'.'.iZ Press Association. By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. (Sec _?eri _daroh 7, 9 45 p.m.) London, March 0. The War Office authorities have cancelled the appointment held by A. F. Calvert as hon. colonel, formerly of the Weatralian Volunteer Regiment. During o recent trial for libel at the Old Bailey it transpired that Calvert wished to obtain a hon. colonelcy of the volunteer regiment for political purposes, and that it was obtained. The parties to the transaction and tho defendant to tho libel case afterwards quarrelled about tho division of the money paid by the Westralian -millionaire to secure the honor. Sydney, March 7. There is still no sign of the missing steamer Fiado, now nineteen days out to Noumea. Various steamers are keeping a look-out. A cable from ___u__ea reports that a French warship has returned from a search for the j Fiado. There was no trace. It is feared she has foundered. She had thirty-four of a crew and three pasaengats—Stiilwell, Evans, and Powell. _ Continuous rains have seriously injured the maize crops in the River Richmond district. Melbourne, March 7. The Government have accepted the tender of the Pennsylvania Steel Com-pany,-America, for the supply of 14,000 tons of steel rails and plates, aggregating £75,000. The Federal Convention settled the water rights question, providing States a reasonable right to use water, which shall not be infringed by anything in the Constitution. Brisbane, March 7. It is raining heavily. The river is rising, and floods have occurred at Gympie and Maryborough.