CABLE BRIEFS.

Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 805, 13 December 1898, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

The Pope has decided that tha Vatican policy shall be anti-Carlist. The Premier of Victoria, on behalf of the New Zealand Government, has offered a bonus of £IOO for the delivery of 200 swallows within two months. The American battleship Massachusetts struck an obstacle off Governor Island, New York harbor. Five of her compartments filled with water. The repairs will be executed at New York. Mad Mullah, the cause of the recent rising, has been expelled from the Swat district, and fled to Kositant, It is reported in Berlin that the Powers have agreed to occupy Samoa, Germany beginning with Upolu. The Victorian Attorney-General has decided it is a case for a jury against the two youths Blomley, who were acquitted by a Magistrate for shooting their father at Ballarat. The Egyptian Government propose that mixed tribunals be renewed for one year, instead of five, to enable the Powers to consider modifications in the system. Calixto Garcia, one of the prominent Cuban leaders, has died at Washington from pneumonia. The American Treasury officials are studying the Jamaican administration as a model for Puerto Rico. General Rappael Igleias, President of the Central American Republic, has sailed for Europe. He visits London and Paris. The Admiralty invite the Newfoundland fishermen to enrol as stokers and seamen of the Naval reserve. Tasmania in their second innings lnade 222. New South Wales thus won by an innings and 487.