ABRIDGED CABLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7404, 7 March 1903, Page 3

ABRIDGED CABLES.

In the House of Commons Mr Balfour announced that a new naval port and base would be established at St. Mary's Hope, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, in accordance with the Committee's recommendation in January last. l m The announcement was received with cheers. A blizzard has destroyed great numbers of cattle in Texas and Arizona. The newspapers applaud the new Naval base. The announcement was withheld until the purchase of the necessary land had been completed. » United States Congress has been ued for one day, and the Senate has commenced an "extraordinary" session to consider the Panama Canal and Cuban reciprocity treaties. The English newspapers are reproducing stories of the gold discoveries at Arltunga, in Australia. A small British military mission is establishing posts between Lake Chad and Sokoto, in Soudan, covering much ijitherto unvisited country. There is much indignation at the Aden authorities not punishing the ✓ Bussian spy. %|Qne result of the recent severe gale is underground telegraphy is being extended to the Midland Counties, Scotland, and the Easj; Coast. It is expected that King Edward will meet President Loubet, at Paris, when proceeding to Riviera in April. Advices have been received that the new land line has been erected between Capetown and Durban, completing the Cauuable route. iPfconsequence of the rise in lead, there is a probability of the Broken Hill Junction Mine, in New South Wales, work. - x ' ' ' "''"' I Count Le Garde, French Minister in Abyssinia,- is returning on leave df ahsehce, and has asked to be transferred <jl* ejsewhere.'