CABLEGRAMS.
BKITISH AND FOREIGN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW CABLE STEAMERS. LONDON, March 2. (Received March 3, at 8.45 a.m.) The Agents-general inspected tho Eastern Extension Cable Company's new cable-repairing steamers at Gravesend, which are equipped with Lodge and Muirhead wireless telegraphy apparatus. The Repairer and Restorer will be stationed at Adelaide, and patrol at Singapore after they have laid the Dutch cable connecting Borneo and Celebes. BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY. March 3; (Received March 3, at midnight.) Many chambers of agriculture and farmers' clubs in Great Britain have adopted resolutions in favour of the appointment or a Royal Commission to inquire into the question of food .supply. THE SAXONY SCANDAL. BERLIN, March 2. (Received March 3, at 10.20 a.m.) The Crown Prince of Saxony will probably marry his divorced wife's sister. FLOODS IN PENNSYLVANIA. NEW YORK, March 2. (Received March 3, at 8.-15 a.m.) Floods in Pennsylvania inundated an area of 56 square miles. As a result, 40,000 persons have been thrown out of employment. CAPE-TO-CAIRO UNIFORM' TIME. CAPETOWN, March 2. (Received 3larch 3, at 10.20 a.m.) A uniform time'has been initiated between Capetown and Cairo. All public clocks in' South Africa were advanced half an hour on Sunday at midnight.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12602, 4 March 1903, Page 5
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