LATEST CABLEGRAMS.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.— Per Press Association.
Received This Day at 10.20 a.m. Our New Flagship. London, August 26. H.M.S. Minerva, a twin screw cruiser of tho second class, which has been engaged on particular service is to be recommissioned in October, and will relieve the Orlando as flagship oil the Australian station. Swimming. London, August 26. Percy Caviil of Sydney won the half-mile swimming handicap at Manchester in record time. Received 10 a.m. The Cuban Outrage. Rome, August 26. The Pope has intervened on behalf of the neice of General Cisneros, arrested for being concerned in a rebellion in Cuba. Received August 27 at 10 a.m. Eight Hours a Day. Berlin, August 2(J. The International Workers’ Congress, sitting at Zurich adopted a resolution demanding a universal eight hours’ day labor, the only exception being agricultural and other laborers during »he gathering of harvests. England aild Greece. London, August 26. The Standard says that most of the Powers are inclined to adopt Lord Salisbury’s view in regard to limiting the foreign financial control of Greece to revenues assigned for the purposes of the war indemnity loan.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 536, 27 August 1897, Page 3
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