CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9568, 26 October 1892, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Obituary : Duke of Boxburghe, aged 53. Prfucess Mae r lltC^ ill Shortly be bcbrothedfco j. nucess Marie 01 Greece. • During the choleraic epidemic 'the Prussian railways lost L 300.000 in revenue. irussian The sculling contest for the Searle cup has collapsed, as only George Bubear entered Intelligence is to hand that,the Dahomeyans have ceased energetic resistance to the French troops in the open. ""t~ x rencn JS"* CliL nS iQ Burmall ar<= destroying the hp f tra"J carrying the outward Australian mail E a^ or Afß- raSo y reCOmT nds thafc the British .East Africa Company; be dissolved, and thafc ifU?a n la UmentUllderfcake the a^^istration The New Brunswick elections have resulted mabare majority for the Government Tne Th \ la\ r> thC• Pfemier« was Seated. that the R 1 R-Miau -,Register t&at the Broken Hill strike will result in a r Oev e n O U fe L2oo' oo° t6 the -^and customs The successful visit of a British warship to Vladivostok for the rescue of the sealing ScaSada "^ B™** 'enthusiasm

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It is officially announced that her Majesty Bien?ina cm Wlllf Pc? d in Florence or iiientina (11 miles from Pisa, near the bed of Lake Bientma, now drained) ° Mr F. 0. Licht estimates that the European beet product.en for one month will show an increase of 25,000 tons for the new ~Ln He also.estimates the decrease at 91,000tonf' The German officials are secretly inquiring theopmjons of Socialist soldiers. The VoSe Zcitung protests against the severe treatment to which boc.ahsts are subjected, and asserts that harsh measures will not convince them of GrrOrS.

The Flemish societies have forwarded a protest to President Carnot against the abuses of the new French tariff, and assert that wfth Zri 1"6? d° notdesire closer relati<™ to'tba^untrr" 2 6 mUe™tiOa °f Be' giUm Archduke Franz Ferdinand Deste of Austria willbegm h.s tour of tho world in November ■when he leaves for India and Singapore inThe torpedo ram Kaiserin Elizabeth. After closing HAriH' fcrilll? nto»r, iu Sydney he visits the New E rcft SoSa. CaledOllia ' a"d New G™ =

askJd fo I T ei??£ of the Board of iQq«iry the nrW fy \ r.rAlllS0" Smith" to inquire into the administration of She Locomotive departreStn??^??? 6 not considered the report of the Military Commissioners, but are S» T> fr°m lead^g officers on the offii i, S'r °- R- Dibbs considers these officers having spent half of their lifetime in IS,W yvS°?ld something about tho ShChfW- rep°rt is likel * t0 have gr<*t weignt with the Government conform™ V*^ thai aDOther inter U ational conference on federation is on foot, and thinks that practical results may be reached. The limes g3es on to say that the financial crisis hab toned down Australian arrogance, and that Holicvnf fi lbbs, Las the indefensible

wshh 7 i ty,° f thG Cai)taia of lhc R«ssian seal e rsln(Tn braka> T^ ho Seized the Canadian The aZ ■ PPCr Islilndl has bueu confirmed. drcut?H? an Tl 6ls Were seized «nder similar adS^ /' •Ut rcsfcored and the mistalje Kirn? referf. nce tho statement of Sir H. S. fnd gLan? eivl ~f the Queecsla*d Investment SSfh? POtbS^ c GomP^y- inquiry shows 5L n, a? MSt the Erectors was underS P -?rn he ad- VlCe of Sir H°n«o Davey. Sir Ssir S Pa-^t ed the latter> klt '^advice of bir S. Griffith and Sir H. Davey tvas riven utterly fa-|T" t °f faCts Which reH iH \° .prove- Tho statement with reteienco to festivities is denied of \hl T ??mmm^K on the constitution malies m Australasia are so startling as to go JoieS F°^ a- Eugland is do° and tL ■ tt?- K<i °f institution-making, th, ml. • Gr? lS; llttle c!oubt fche tendency in hers uT ?S tO, Wip°aWaynominatcdch^ btis. Ueferring to the motion tabled in the sponso ot ihe Imperial Government.