CABLEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9297, 13 March 1899, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

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THE QUEEN'S CONTINENTAL TRIP.

London, Maroh 10. Owing to the inclement weather the departure of the Queen to the Continent has been postponed to Saturday.

RAILWAY EXTENSION.

London, March 10. Mr Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, has opened the Great Central Company's new trunk line from Annesley to London.

COMMERCIAL.

London, March 10.

Mr McKeever, formerly a director of Coey and Oompany, provision merchants of London, Liverpool,' Belfast, and America, whose failure was recently announced, has acquired the London business of the firm from March Ist. The new business will be carried on under the style of MoKeever and Co.

• IMPORTS.

Calcutta, March 10.

Sir James Westland, a member of the Governor-General's Council, proposes to introduce a Bill dealing with imports, He points out that the German and Austrian bounty to beet, sugar has closed numerous refineries in India,

KAURI GUM SALES.

London, March 10.

At the kauri gum auctions 292 oases were offered, and 1700 sold. Soraped kinds were firmly held, but other kindß declined 2s 6d to ss.

THE PLAGUE,

Calcutta, March 11.

Since the outbreak of theiplague in India, 200,000 deaths have been registered.

CAPE TO CAIUO SCHEME,

Berlin, March 11.

Cecil Rhodes, who is at present on a visit to Berlin, had an interview with the Kaisßr in regard to the Oape to Cairo scheme.

The Berlin newspapers are favorable to Rhodes' railway on the German side of Lake Tanganyika,:

A NEWSPAPER PROHIBITED.

St. Petersburg, March 11. Mr Stead's newspaper has been prohibited from circulation in Russia.

THE SOUDAN.

Caieo, March 11.

The Khalifa's force has been diminished owing to quarrels with the Gouards, a branoh of the Beggaras tribe,

THE TOULON DISASTER,

Paris, March 11.

The Chamber of Deputies have voted 600,000 franca to relief the victims of the Toulon disaster, The Prince of Wales, who is on a visit to Nice, is assisting the fund raised there for the same object.

THE RECENT HURRICANE.

London, Maroh 11

The House of Commons voted £40,000 toßarbadoes and £25,000 to St. Tiocent in connection with the recent hurricane. These amounts were fur her supplemented by & loan of £50,000,t0 each island.

THE NAVAL PROGRAMME.

London, March 11.

Experts consider that Goschen's naval programme is insufficient so far as it applies to cruisers,

OBITUARY,

LONDON, March 10. Obituary! Dowager Countess Hampden, mother of Lord Hampden.