CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8814, 1 March 1892, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

Miss Clough, principal of the Newnham Girls' College, Cambridge, is dead. lb is reported Germany and Franc© are joining the American Bi-nutallic Conference. The Democrats of the American House of Representatives have decided to repeal th« sugar duty. The Economist says that statutes passed by the Australian colonies cannob affecb English depositors. General Roberts, Commander-in-Chief in India, recommends a large extension of irrigation works and railways in Upper Bur mah. Messrs. Combe (Tory) and Baker (Liberal) will contest the Chertsey, and Melville (Tory) and Broad (Liberal) the South Derbyshire seat. It is stated that a committee of English judges are unanimously in favour of establishing a permanent Court of Appeal fir th« purpose of revising all sentences. The Government of Natal indends to despatch Sir J. Robertson and Mr. Sutton to London, to induce Lord Knutsford tn accept the amended constitution. A crowded meeting was held in London on Saturday, Mr. Leonard Courtney, M.P., presiding, at which resolutions were passed in favour of woman suffrage. Mr. Campbell, South African expert, in the course of an interview with the Pall Mall Gazette, said 120,0000z of gold were produced by the Johannesberg mines in December, and they were capable of turning out 250,0000z. In his opinion they offered a permanent and profitable invest-