CABLE NEWS.
[By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. | (Per Press Association.) SWIMMING. Sydney, January 17. The 500 yds swimming championship of the colony has been won by Dick Cavill in 6min 52 l-ssec which constitutes a new Anstralian record. COAL SH OUTAGE IN ENGLAND. London, February 17. In the Honse of Commons last night Mr W. G. Macartney, Conservative M.P. for Antrim South, said that owing tothe high price of coal in Great Britain the Admiralty was considering offers of Australian coal bargoes. The British reserve fleet is now coaling. DEFE&T OF A DESPOT. Paris, February 16 The French expedition recently dcs patched against the notorious Central African conqueror the despot£Rabah— otherwise known as [the Arabian Napoleon"—captured his fortress atKuka, on Lake Tchad, in the Sultanate of Bornu, after defeating his army, numbering 12,000. Two thousand of his followers were killed. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. Sydney, February 18. _ A barque has orived here from Mauritius with aj suspected case of plague aboard.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6626, 19 February 1900, Page 3
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