CABLE BRIEFS.
The treatment accorded to the New Zealand cricket team in Sydney will be a matter for discussion at the next meeting of the Cricket Association. The first horse in the Newmarket Handicap sweep, value £4050, goes to Mr Seaton, of Otorohanga, Auckland, and the second horse, value £1215, to Miss Morgan, Wesport. The foliowmg portfolios have been allotted in the new Spanish Cabinet : Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senor Silvela ; War, General Polavaja ; Interior, Senator Dato. A youth named Hill, aged 19, has confessed that while working at Henty's he placed a I .imp near some straw. Looking round shortly afterwant lie daw it in flami'S. Frightened Vt'Jß had occurred, he left the cellar and did not inform anyone. The Queen of the Belgians is suffering from an attack of bronchitis. She is in a critical condition, and the members of the family have been summoned. Major-General Hutton, Commandant of Farces in Canada, in a speech at a banquet at Toronto, said that he intended to ask Sir Wilfred Lauricr to organise a national army. The Right Hon. Lord Penzance, * Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court, has resigned. The German Emperor has cabled bis sympathies to Eipling.
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Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 864, 7 March 1899, Page 3
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