Condensed Cables.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7158, 8 February 1901, Page 2

Condensed Cables.

A company is beiug formed at Mel. bourne to establish regular steam service with South Africa.

The weather at Adelaide is intensely hot, the thermometer registering 110 degrees in the shade.

A London Booiigan has been sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude for manslaughter o; a policeman. All the guns of the cruiser Sibyilie— which ranashove in Saldanhaßay. Cape Colony, while seeking shelter from a storm-have been saved, with the exception of one.

Drke of Devonshire, writing in the Empire Beview. says that Imperial federation at Dbe present time would be premature.

1031 cases of typhoid fever in Sydney and suburbs last year, an increase of 286 as compared with previous year. Deaths showed an increase of sixteen. Mr J. James, of Paikakariki, won the third prize (£153) in Tattewall's sweep on the Launceston Cup. A suspeetsd case of plague is reported at Lisniore, tho patient being a Hindu. Mr Peaooek becomes Premier, Treasurer and Minister fcr Labour ;Mr Trenwitb, Chief B.°crotary and Minister far Haihvays; and Mr MeOullougb, Minister for Works, Health and Defence in Victorian Ministry. , ■ •The organ of the Amalgamated Bails way Servants' Society of 3reat Britain has been mulcted ia £1000 damnges for j accusing a railway superintendent of drunkenness.

Great Eastern Railway Company has ordered 8000 tons of steel rails from Pittsburg, in the United States.

Andrew Carnegi&'s steel works trans*, ferred to Pierpoint, Morgan's syndicate for 160,000,000 dollars, ensuring control of the steel rail industry. The Italian Government defr-ated on a question of generas policy, by 818 votes to 102.