GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3314, 22 December 1897, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Frees Asmatton.—Copyright. Athens, December 20. The Turkish and Greek Governments have mutually released the prisoners takoa.durlng the late war. - •, !■-' Paris, December 20. The Duke of Orleans, head of the Royal House of France, in the coarse of a speech) declared that France wonld some day find renewed prosperity under a constitutional Liberal monarchy. He advised the Monarohists for the present to support the Republican authorities. • . London, December 20. The Times, commenting on the speech of the Duke of Orleans, says' it almost amounts to an'abdication of his rights. Pretoria, December 20. The Orange Free State h#r decided to grant iiatoaliiation to,'burghers from the Trans* Melbourne, December 21. _ The coming election of the City Oouncil will be the first at which women may vote.. A meeting of women decided not to recommend any particular candidate, but urged the electors to make their own choice. . Sir John Madden succeeds the late Sir Anthony Brownlees as''- Chancellor of the University.' Stdnxt, December 21. News has been received from India announcing the'' death 'of the Bov Edwin' Lewis, who toured the colonies in connection with the centenary of the London Missionary Society, • < ■ Brisbane, December 21; The small steamer, Mystery, when ou a fishing excursion, capsized On - the bar at Southport, 50 iniles south-east of Brisbane. ‘ The'engineer was Below when’She turned over, and be reached the surface after hiving hten utidet watef for' a rhinnto and: a'half. tyith the' exception "of a man named Sey> mour, who 'was ■ drowned,'-the crew and passengers got ashore. ■ Received Pecomter 21, p.m. ' Perth, Dooember2l. The Legislative Assembly has voted an annuity of £l5O to Lady Broome*; to supplement the annuity ef £IOO recently granted by the Imperial Government. Bbisbanx, December 21. A peculiar accident has happened on the Cnnnamnlla railway.' A : number "of navvies wore sheltering beneath seine trucks, ’when these were Started by a high wind. The trucks ran over and ''killed one man, besides Seriously injuring two others. V • ' Calcutta, December 21. The Indian Council intends to amend the sedition laws, so as to provide', for the punishment of the propoterg of ill-frill'amongst the populace. ' all ‘ newspapers, native and foreign, will receive similar treatment. ‘ ' Cairo, December 21. : The sentence of 20 months* imprisonment foraedition recently passed 'on the editor of the vernacular neper Sailed published here has been reduced to six months. Received December 21,11.10 pan, ■■ ’Ottawa, December2l, A Canadian cruiser has rescued *l3 of the crew of the American steamer Cleveland;' which was wrecked Barclay Sound, British. Columbia. . .. .