GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4978, 30 May 1903, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ANNEXATION IN THE PACIFIC.

(Received Alay 29, 10.22 p.m.) LONDON, Alay 29.

.Advices which have been received from San Francisco state that tho British Consul at Tahiti, in order to forestall France, sent a warship and annexed three small uninhabited islands near Pitcairn Island, including tho island of Ducie, whore there is a safe harbour, arid which is considered valuable in view of tho completion of tho Panama canal.

THE CHALLENGER FOR THE AMERICA COP. (Received Alay 29, 10.28 p.m.) LONDON, May 29. Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht Shamrock 111. has sailed from Dumbarton for Sandy Hook to compete against the American yacht Reliance for the America Oup. A flotilla escorted the challenger down tho Firth.

DROWNED FROAI A YACHT. (Received Alay 29, 11.30 p.m.) BRISBANE, Alay 29

The crew of the yacht Stella, which put in here to-day, reports that Captain Robertson, who, With two Alessrs Crawford, was voyaging to Now Guinea, fell overboard and was drowned while a heavy sea was running. The deceased formerly resided in Now Zealand,

AMERICAN WARSHIPS GOING TO . THE BALTIC. (Received May 29, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 29. President Roosevelt has ordered the battleship Alabama, two cruisers and a gunboat to rendezvous at Kiel for tho German Imperial Regatta on Juno 20.

AUSTRALIAN -MAIL CONTRACTS. SYDNEY, May 29. The “ Sydney Morning Herald,” dealing with the question of mail contracts, says: “On tho surface of things at present it looks as if we may he asked to buy the privilege of exclusion of the Lascar by tho loss of some of the great mail liners. Tho whole question is a serious one, full of matter for grave consideration.” ' LONDON, May 28. Emigrants to Canada pardhased in London same of the infected War Office blankets, BERLIN, May 28. A ferry-boat capsized on the river Warthe. in Eastern Prussia. Twenty out of forty-five children on hoard were drowned. Naval Cadet Hussuer, who was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for killing a gunner who omitted to salute him, has appealed against his Sentence. HOBART, May 29. As a result of the amalgamation of the Mount Lyell and North Lyell mines over three hundred men will he thrown out of employment at the end of the Weok. Several small mining settlements will he practically wiped out.