BRITISH AND FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS.
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(FEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received August 27, at 1.10 a m, Port au-Prinob, August 26. President Legitime has left Haytll in a French corvette, and General Hlppolyto has ocoupied Port-au-Prlnoe. War Is now ended. San Francisco, Aagußt 26. The Looal Chamber of Commoroa nro In favor of laying a cable via Honolulu and Tutuila. Suakim, August 26. A famine Is raging in the Soadan, and at Khartoum and Kassala people aro outing the dead bodies. The late Mahdi's nephew, with a thousand men, is 20 miles from Suakim, and threatens to attaok the town. London, August 26. Bob Abel offers to find an Englishman to box Stavin for L2OO aside. Received August 27, at 0.13 p.m. London, August 26. The new system of telegraphic moneyorder will oome into operation on September Ist. The maximum amount to bo transmitted has been fixed at LlO. Owing to the strike of the dook laborers, the ooast servloes are almost at a standstill. Clerks In the offioos ot tho different firms have been pressed into tho servioeof loading and unloading coasting Btoamors. Mr Sydney Ohories Buxton, M,P. for Poplar, peses as the champion of tho strikers.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4458, 27 August 1889, Page 2
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