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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1403, 19 January 1899, Page 22

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Constantinople, January 16. | The Turkish Government has ordered ! 162 Krupp cannon and 30,000 shells. j Vienna, January 16. Jewels to the value of £4OOO, the pro- | perty of Madamo Frances Savilo, the popular opera artist, daughter of the late | Madamo Simonsen, well known in the ', colonies, have been stolen from the hotel in this city at which she was staying. Melbourne, January 17. In reply to inquiries, the Secretary of Agriculture has received information that the wheat harvest of Cape Colony is below the average, and a considerable shortage will require to bo made up. The woman Lcdebur (or Radatske) who with a house agent named Todd and a girl named Jamieson is now in custody on'a charge of the murder of the young woman Ambrose (whose body was found floating in the Yarra enclosed m a box), has made a statement that the latter died in an epileptic fit. Information has been received that the ' man Whyte, formorly legal manager of a mining company at Gippsland, who was wanted by the police on a charge of the forgery of scrip, has been arrested at Capetown. Sydney, January 17. Tho man Butler who was arrested at Auckland, while en route to San Francisco, on a charge of embezzlement irom a Newcastle company, has been committed for trial. Adelaide, January 17. A domestic tragedy is reported from Price. A shoemaker named Cairns, who had been on unhappy terms with his wife, stabbed her with a knife and then attacked her with a fire-iron. Afterwards ho cut his own throat. The woman is expected to recover, but tho man is in a serious condition. Pbsin, January 17. Li Hung Chang, the famous Chinese Minister, is seriously ill. Information has been received here that French warships have been ordered to Fu-chau. Berlin, January 17. Although it was stated by the Minister of Marino (Vice-Admiral Tirpitz) the other day that the German Government had no intention of immediately increasing the navy, it is known that three battleships and two cruisers are under construction. London, January 17. The Berlin Government of the "Daily News" states that Germany has made haste to increase her army because the Czar's staunchest supporter in his peace proposals made no reduction in her proposed new armaments. The first six months' working of the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act shows that fatal accidents increased twelve and one-eleventh per cent., and injuries to workmen by forty-three per cent. The "Daily Chronicle" combats the arguments put forward by the Right Hon Cecil Rhodes for an Imperial guarantee for the loan of £2,000,000 which is about to bo raised for the construction of the Buluwayo-Tanganyika railway. Tho journal in its comments on the subject states that Rhodesia has been a gigantic failure. The "Times" says that Great Britain will not object to Germany acquiring the Caroline Islands from Spain. Paris, January 17. Encouraged by the success attending tho trials of the submarine vessel Gu#ta,vc Zede (which recently succeeded in twice striking the battleship Magenta with blank torpedoes, and afterwards inado a satisfactory passage of 70 miles from Toulon to Marseilles) the Government has ordered the construction of six more boats of a similar type. Madrid, January 16. It is stated that the Premier (Don Praxedes Sagaeta) intends to ask the Cortes for authority to sell the Marianne, Caroline and Pelew Islands in the Pacific.