ABRIDGED GABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 21 November 1899, Page 2

ABRIDGED GABLES.

The Intercolonial Rowi'itf Oorferencc (sitting in Melbourne) has a loptod the amateur definition of 189§ for intercolonial races. Letters from the warship Egeria, surveying the Pacific cable route, report that, from Vancouver to Fanning Island ihey lound an average depth of 280 fathoms. Tho Emperor and Eiilpress of Germany and two sons boarded the Royal yacht Hohenzollern at Kiel,, and proceeded 'io' England to spend five days at Windsor, and two at Sandringham. Wireless telegraphy is being useU in connection with the Mediterranein fleet , Owing to the remarks made by the Lon- , don Chief Justice on the occasion of sweating in Alderman Newton, the Lorl Mayor has npplitd to have re-opened the industrial contract with the London Corporation in cases where such contracts were made by . companies whereof he was a direcirr. The Czar ha"s dismissed M. Zake ewski, one of his Privy Councillors of State. It transpires that he was the author 01 articles I insulting the French Army in cornection i with the Dreyfus case. " 1 The Franco-Chinese boundary question, j in the Kwanchauwan o.fiti'bl, in the pro- j vince of 'Qurnan, which somo months ago ; was responsible for serious complications 1 arid disturbances, has been settled. i Tho Melbourne-Federal Rifii Council has 1 decided to send a team of 15 men to com- f pete at lfisley next year, New South Wales ( Victoria, and Queensland each contribute 1 four, Adelaide two, nnd Tusm mm one. { The Premier of New South Wales has re- c ccived a cable from the Agen's-General vlr- £ tually demanding the money canned by the 6 1 New Guinea Land Syndicate for o.isaliow j, ing concessions, and/isk thM it be paid im- j mediately. He says the Ag ms-G moral of E the various colonies were not authorised to B decide the matter, which ho- will lay before I Parliament. . 1 The Victorian railway revenue- has in- , creased £100,000 for the first five months - of the year. The Commissi iner expects a c big surplus at the end of the year. t Alluviasts again ooinmenced''ciirting wash f from Addine Brookman'n- Bo llder 'TCulgoor- A lie) leases, and further trouole is expected. „ Turkey has granted a concussion to <v t Deutsche Bank syndicate for the extension r Oi a railway to- Bussorah (or Ba.,r.i), the 1 I principal Tui'ldsji port on the Pmsi'.,n Gulf, " situated on the Euphrates River, 66 miles from its mouth. ■'A ■ '