CABLE NEWS.
Per Pbess Association. — Br jElbctric Telegraph — Copyright. Sydney, August 80. News has been received that labor riot has occurred at Barbadoes, and that some of the sugar plantations were looted.
Brussels, August 30. The arrangement by which Congo Free State was placed under the sovereignty of the King of the Belgians has been prolonged ten years.
St. Petbesbdbg, August 30. Famine is causing acute distress in Kussia, especially in Kazan, where the thatohing from the roofs of the peasants' houses are being used for fodder. The authorities are endeavoring to prevent the complete destruction of live stock. Capetown, Augusts. Mr Oeoil Rhodes, in a final speech to the electors, said he would have the whole colony with, him in five years. He would continue, to press on the policy of keeping the north with the south, in the hope of creating a union between South and | Central Africa.
Bombay, August 30. ihere have been 2800 deaths from plague in the Bombay Presidency for the week.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 4026, 31 August 1898, Page 2
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