CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 10809, 19 December 1898, Page 4

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Sir Sird r ord Fleming estimates the length cf the Pacific cabin l.c propo-ei at 23,000 knots, and the cost at six millions.

A deputn i m representing the Trades Union Conference asked S.r M. H:ck«-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to allow unlimited investment of union funds in the Bos': Olii .'c Savings Bmk Sr M. Hicks B-ach n plied that it would be a disadvantage to widely extend the amount of depo- v sits, which were growing so enormously as in Hie event of a financial p.nic the withdrawals would seriously injure the national credit, The Italian Chamber, by 172 to 43, rejected the proposal to abandon Krylhrca colony, on th** "Rfed liitorul. A d^pult stated in the Cnumber that »• trea'y exited between Italy and England to maintain th, status quo with regard to the Red S-a and Mediterranean and the bb.tvrland of Tripoli end Kahialea. The G moment allowed the statement to pats in silence The Sultan favors tho proposal of Count Kapiust, a Russian financier, to construct u railway from Tripoli Harbor to Kowryt, or the Persian Gulf. The line would reduce the journey between Bombay and Biindiai to eight days. The death is ar nouncad of Biron Ferdi nand J. De Rothsch 11, celat fifty-nine. Thr deceased who was Liberal-Unionist memb, i f r Aylesbury (Bucks) at the time of hh death, wast hcsoaofß iron Aurelius I) R >ths child, of \’:enna, and was born in Paris in 1839, and educated in Vienna. He'has beei long resident in Ragland, and in 1883 wa> elected an M P. for Aylesbury, and has eon tinued to represent llie district since Unc date. He was made High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1883. and was a deputv-lhu tenant and J.P. for the county, us well as u member of the County Council. II; was* collector of works of art, mid in h j: i U< use> at Piccadilly and Waddesdon hid-a Urge number of rare treasures. He fr-undefi the Evelina Hospital in Southwark Bri Ige road in memory of his wife. The Bishop of Maitland has announced that from January 1 flowers will not b permitted in connection with funeral displays. Worldly pomp, ho says, has grown into abuse Ho also recommended people to discontinue the use of flowers in their homes.