CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Evening Star, Issue 10808, 17 December 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

An influential syndicate has applied to the Colonial Office and Agents-General to acquire 100.000 acres of specified lands in New Guinea without monopolistic concessions such as iue New Guinea syndicate sought for. The minimum capital of the latest venture is £IOO,OOO. The • Pall Mall Gazette' says that I3rLevels, envoy for the Transvaal, is hopeful of arranging a syndic-ate to lease Delagoa Bay in return for a large loan to Portugal. A revival of the Canadian interest in the Pacific cable has taken place. It is expected that Canada and Great Britain will contribute five-ninths of the cost in equal shares. Fifty thousand rounds of Lee-Metford ammunition have been stolen from Hounslow. The authorities have no clue to the robbers. A woman named MLaughlin having been missing from her home at Raima (N.S.W.) for several days, black trackers were set to work and found she had fallen or jumped from a cliff 60ft high. The dead body of a newlyborn infant was discovered alongside the mother's body. . The Government tug Little Nell capsized oil Redhead (N.S.W.) while being towed to Newcastle. The captain and one of the crew were drowned. ,„„„,, President M'Kinlev, addressing 10,000 persona at Atlanta, lauded the patriotism of the South. The nation, lie said, was for evermore indivisible. The Hag had been planted in two hemispheres, symbolic of law, liberty, peace, and progress.