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LONDON, Friday. 'A committee of Liverpool and Manchester merchants propose to build a mono-rail railway on the Behr system to' connect Liverpool and Manchester, a‘ distance of thirty-one miles, at a cost of eleven and a half millions sterling. It is estimated that the journey under the new system will occupy twenty minutes. > LONDON, Saturday. .'•‘Lord Curzon, Governor-General of India, has submitted to Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, a proposal to reduce the rate for the transmission of telegrams between the United States and India bv 50 per cent. The “Daily News,” in ah article upon the paper on the British Navy recently read by Lord Brassey, Governor of Vicin Melbourne, commends his Lordship for the sane Imperialism manifested ih'his arguments. The Duke and Duchess of York paid a visit to the Greater Britain Exhibition at Earl’s Court, and were greatly interested in the Victorian court. The Hon Mr Taverner, the Victorian Minister of Agriculture, presented the Duchess with a box of apples imported from the colony. . The Birthday honours have just been gazetted. They include a baronetcy for Mr Samuel Way, the Chief Justice of South Australia ; knighthoods to Mr Matthew Harris, Mayor of Sydney, and Mr Alma Tadema. the artist. The Order of the Grand Cross of the Bath has been extended to Mr H. M. Stanley, the explorer, and that of Commander of St. Michael and St. George, to Sir C. E. Howai’d Vincent, who is M.P. for Central Sheffield and chairman of the National Union Conservative Association. 1 The municipal authorities of Liverpool Have licensed children over eleven years of age to sell in the streets till nine p.m. Any children below that age who sell will be prosecuted. ' The universities of Australasia and the whole world will participate in the festivities about to be held in. Cambridge in honour of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., president* of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who will shortly attain his 80th birthday. ■ A fire has occurred in a large shed at Victoria Docks, in which was stored the cargo of the Australian liner Banffshire. " The flames spread to the Banffshire, Which was lying alongside the jetty. One of the steamer’s firemen jumped overboard and was drowned, and another man was suffocated by ammonia fumes, while the chief officer was nearly suffoLONDON, Sunday. Before the fire on the Banffshire was extinguished three of the holds were burned out. The consignments of ’ rabbits and frozen meat on board are safe in the cold storage apartments, excepting the Carcases of 9000 lambs, which are believed to be burned The wool stored in the sheds was burned also. •- The losses are heavy. The following are the official quotations of the Frozen Meat Trade Association. The basis of quotations is the sale of a line of not less than 100 carcases of mutton Or lamb. All the quotations are for fair average quality. Quotations for New Zealand lamb do not include small lambs or heavies of inferior quality. New Zealand crossbred wethers and maiden ewes—Canterbury, l-16d higher, at 4-i-d per lb; Dunedin and Southland, not quoted; North Island, l-16d lower, at 3 13-16 d. River Plate crossbred merino •wethers— Heavy, -fd lower, at 3 J ,d; light, jjd lower, at 3£d. Prime Canterbury, l-16cl higher, at •s,id; fair average (including Dunedin, Southland, Welington and secondary Canterbury), unchanged, at 5 3-l Gd. Two cargoes of Victorian wheat have been sold at 29s 6d and 29s 3d per quarter respectively. The arrivals for the fourtii series of London and colonial wool sales, which will open on June 27th, total 357,000 bales, of which 129,000 have been forwarded direct to the manufacturers. The quantity available for the sales is 233,000 bales. Queensland heavy ox s‘d, light ox and cow sd; New South Wales heavy ox 4|d, light 4£d, cow 4]d. Australian strained average, B;}d per lb; New Zealand, lid. Australian best heavy, 10}d per lb. LONDON, Monday. The death is announced of Herr Johann Strauss, the well-known composer of waltzes, aged 74. George Towns, the New South Wales sculler, had two ribs broken by a boating accident on the Thames. An official dinner was given by the Right Hon J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in honour of the Queen’s Birthday, the AgentsGeneral being amongst the guests. It was announced in the course of the evening that a new order will shortly be established, to provide decorations for officers of the colonial auxiliary forces, and also for long-sorvice modals AMSTERDAM, Monday. Owing to the pneumatic brake not acting, an express dashed into a waitingroom at Flushing. Both guards and the daughter of M. Roths, a Swiss delegate to the Peace Convention, who was a passenger by the train, were killed.

Fortunately the waiting-room was empty at the time.

ALBANY. Monday. Mr Fred. Villiers, the noted war correspondent and artist, arrived here from England by the R.M.S. Orient, to begin a a tour of the colonies, lecturing then on ture on the recent campaign in the Soudan that led to the capture of Khartoum. CAPETOWN, Monday Mr Solomon, a supporter of the Afrikander party, now m office, lias been elected for the Tembuland seat in the Cape House of Assembly, defeating Sir Gordon Sprigg. ex-Preinier of the colony. MADRID, Monday. Spain is retaining a coaling station in each of the groups of islands ceded to Germany. The latter is to pay 26,000,000 pesetas (£1,040,000) indemnity, and also undertakes to defend Spain’s coaling stations. CAIRO, Saturday. ’ A reassuring announcement has been made in reference to the cases of plague that were recently discovered in the slums of Alexandria. It is stated that the disease as experienced there is not of a serious type, and also that it is non-infectious. BERLIN, Friday. A Workmen’s Protection Bill has been drafted by the Kaiser, and it has been submitted to the Reichstag. The Bill is designed with a view to protect the free labourers against the attacks of the unionists who may be out on strike, and provides that severe punishment shall be meted out to those who may be guilty of picketing and intimidation. . The Bill also provides for the infliction of penal servitude in extreme cases should the strike tend to endanger the security of the Empire and imperil the lives and property of citizens. PARIS, Friday. General Galliene, Governor of Madagascar, proposes to construct railways and roads in the island at a cost of fifty million francs (£2,000.000). The strike of employees in the gun and engineering works at La Creusot in Central France, in which ten thousand men are •concerned, is still in progress. The demand made by the strikers is for an advance in their rate of wages by 5d a day. A great meeting of the Nationalist party in Paris supported Deroulede’s agitation in favour of a plebiscitary Republic. Frantic crowds greeted Major Marchand on his arrival in Paris. The State carriage in which he was driven was ornamented with wreaths and tricolour flags. The explorer was conveyed to the Ministry of Marine, where he was entertained at luncheon by the Government. The authorities are striving to monopolise the reception, so as to prevent it developing into a Nationalist demonstration. FARi.e Saturday. M. Emile Zola, the famous French novelist, who has been in exile in England since the sentence of a year’s imprisonment was passed upon him, in audition to a fine of 30,000 francs (£1200), for his reflections upon the First Council of War in the columns of the “Aurore” newspaper, has returned to France. The strike at the iron engineering works at Creuzot has ended The men struck for an advance of wages, and the masters have conceded their demands. The display of enthusiasm towards Major Marchand, the French military explorer, on his arrival in this city was carried to such a height that it has been likened to the demonstration made on the occasion of the Czar’s reception when he visited France in October, 1896. Ladies almost smothered Marchand with flowers, and the crowd hailed him as the conqueror of Fashoda. M. Loekroy, Minister of Marine, M. de Brazza, Governor of French Congo, and other notabilities, overwhelmed him with congratulations. Major Mai’chand’s attitude during these proceedings was dignified and reserved. A sword of honour was presented to him, and the President of the Republic (M. Loubet) accorded him an interview, while the Chamber of Deputies passed him a vote of thanks. The Chamber of Deputies has passed a vote of thanks to General Gallieni, administrator of the affairs of Madagascar. ST. PETERSBURG, Saturday. Seventeen hundred Russian emigrants, accompanied by military forces, have started from Odessa for Port Arthur. Vladivostock is to become the commercial terminus of the Siberian railway, and Port Arthur the military port for Eastern Siberia. ROME, Friday. • An important statement as to the foreign policy of Italy has been made in the Chamber of Deputies by the Marquis Visconti-Venosta, Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet formed a fortnight ago with General Pelloux as its Premier. The Minister renounced the idea of territorial expansion as being unsuited to the circumstances of Italy, and the Chamber by a vote of 238 to 139 endorsed the Ministerial policy. MELBOURNE. Friday. The death is announced of Mr Samuel K. Vickery, Surveyor-General of Victoria. ADELAIDE, Friday. The Marine Board has given its decision with reference to the loss of the barque Loch Sloy, which lately

went ashore on Kangaroo Island, to the south of this colony, when on a voyage from Glasgow to Melbourne. The finding of the Board is that the disaster was due to an error in the calculations as to the ship’s position, and by the non-reduction of her speed when land was known to be near. Other factors were the neglect to keep a sufficient lookout and her unpreparedness for anchoring when the emergency arose. The Board considered that if the vessel had been put upon the port instead of the starboard tack when the danger was perceived she might have escaped. The bodies of two more of the victims of the wreck have been recovered. SYDNEY, Monday. There is much activity in mining circles in regard to gold-dredging. The Government has already received applications for the lease of 20,000 acres of river flats. The Marine Board, which has been inquiring into the cause of the loss of the Union Steam Ship Company’s Tekapo, which went ashore recently in a fog at Maroubra Bay, opposite Sydney, nave found that loss of the steamer was due to a wrongful act or default of Captain Bams in navigating too closely along the coast. The captain lias been called upon to show cause why his certificate should not :jc dealt with. The case will be heard next Monday. The ‘'Daily Telegraph" publishes a. leading article commendatory of the New Zealand land settlement system. The “Telegraph'’ affirms that there is little 'danger, according to the presentoutlook, of the New Zealand Government losing anything by this daring pioneer movement. H.M.S. Pylades. which was lately ashore on a reef near Thursday Island, has arrived here. She \\ ill relieve H.M.S. Royalist, whose commission has expired. The Lindus, which went ashore at the Oyster Bank, near Newcastle, yesterday, is full of water. The vessel lies over the wreck of the steamer Colonist, the latter’s libs piercing her bottom. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. Diplomatic relations between Spain and the United States, which have been interrupted since the outbreak of the war over the Cuban question in April of last year, have now been resumed. SYDNEY, Tuesday. During the passage of H.M.S. Pylades from Plymouth to Sydney a seaman and a leading stoker mysteriously disappeared. It is believed that both fell overboard.

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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1423, 8 June 1899, Page 25

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LATEST CABLES New Zealand Mail, Issue 1423, 8 June 1899, Page 25

LATEST CABLES New Zealand Mail, Issue 1423, 8 June 1899, Page 25