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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11932, 19 February 1894, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

[Br EliEctric Telegraph— -Ccptiikk-it.] [Per Press Association.] Berlin, February 17. A stoampipe burst on board the Gorman steamer Brandenburg, lying at Kiel, and 46 of the crew were killed. St. Peterbbvbgh, February 17. Five hundred persons drifted to sea on an ice flee at Ingermannland, Helsingfoss, in the Gulf of Finland. Hopes are entertained that they are safe, and rescue parties have been sent out. Owing to the brutality of Colonel Akertok, of the Dracoon Regiment, Warsaw, the officers drew lots who should murder him, and the lot fell to the adjutant, who shot the colonel dead. Pabih, February 17. The relations between Portugal and France are strained, owing to the reluctance of the Government of the former country to safeguard French investors in their capital for the construction of Portuguese railways, and in consequence the French Minister has been recalled from Lisbon. Lonpon, February 17. Mr Reid, Victorian delegate, din d at the House of Commons to-night as a guest of Mr Morley and Mr Campbell Bannerman. He pressed on Mr Morley the necessity of Groat Britain subsidising the Pacific mail steamers, and urgod that the Imperial Government should guarantee half of the interest on the construction of a Pacific cabla, Canada and Australia to raise the other half. Mr Morley replied, sympathising with the remarks of Mr Reid.