CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10307, 14 March 1895, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

General Booth has selected Canada for his oversea colony. ,Tbe Grand Duchess of Hesse has given birth to a daughter. The s.s. Gulf of Bothnia, which went ashore in the Suez Canal, has been floated off. It is hoped tha; all tha Oroya's cargo will be saved. The ship's bottom is damaged. The remains of Ismail Pasha wera buried in Cairo, the funeral obsequies being carried out with great, pomp. The rumour that the Huddart-Parker Company have arranged with the German Lloyd's Company ior aa Atlantic service is uutrue. Lord Roaebery's health shows a slight improvement, and the Prime Minister was able co attend a Cabinet meeting at his. private residence. - . The Order of tha Crowu of India has been ca_f.rred on Mrs Fowler (wife of the Secretary of State for India) and on Lady Sandhurst. The Russian yacht Czarina, which was taking ths Russian Minister to Athens, has been wrecked iv the Gulf of* Patras. The fate of the passengers is unknown. The establishment of Nesbit. and Jerges,. jewellers, at Ccolgaidie, was entered by burglar;., who stole LIOOO worth of gold and jewellery. Several arrests ■ have been made. The French reply to the United States protest against the exclusion of American meat is anxiously awaited, as a guide to the attitude that will ba assumed towards other European countries wbich are excluding American products. The New South Wales Wesleyan Conference recorded its appreciation of the work of the Methodist Federal Council in fostering a spirit of union, ami empowered the council to present statistical ro.urns of the ministcrA' circuits and properties of all Methodist churches next year, with a view to union. The Victorian Premier (Mr Turner) bas addressed a circular letter to the Premiers of the other colonies suggesting t. aac S { e p S b e taken to erect federal quarantine stations at Albany and Cooktown. It is proposed that the various colonies share the coat of building the stations, and come to an arrangement by wbich each colony shall contribute a fair share towards the cast of maintenance.