CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 10872, 4 March 1899, Page 3 (Supplement)

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Five regiments, besides artillery, will reinforce General Otis at Manila. Burton, the only remaining member of the Irish dynamitards imprisoned in 1883, has been released. Prince Henry of Prussia has been appointed commander of the German cruiser squadron. Lieutenant Hobson has been promoted for extraordinary heroism in blocking Santiago harbor by sinking the Merrimao. Sir Edward Clark advises the New Guinea Syndicate that they are entitled to recover from New Guinea or Queensland all expenses since November, 1897, in consequence of 40,000 acres of land granted, or the restoration of £I,OOO deposited with the Colonial Office. He expressed the opinion that the several Governments concerned wero guilty of a serious breach of faith. The Rev. Arthur Boyd, a well-known London litternteur, is dead. Death was due to poison taken in mistake for medicine. Tributes to the services of the late Lord Herschell in strengthening the bonds between the English-Bpeaking races were made in the House of Lords, in the American Senate, and at a meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce. The latest bulletin about Rudyard Kipling is more comforting, though the patient is weaker. The jockey Hayes, injured in a hurdle race at Caul field on Saturday last, is dead. A requiem mass for the late President Faure was celebrated in St. Mary's Cathedral (Sydney) yesterday.. The' Governor and high officials were present. Four squadrons of New South Wales Lancers have sailed for England to undergo a oonrse of training.