CABLE NEWS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) London, March 17. The death is announced of Sir Henry Bessemer, the eminent civil engineer and inventor, aged 85. The secretary of the County Cricket Association, with tho concurrence of several of his colleagues, suggests that the Marylebone Cricket Council should select the future English cricket teams for Australia iv preference to the present haphazard method of selection. At a conference of tho associated Chambers of Commerce it was resolved to urge tho Government to press China, with a view to obtaining permission to construct a railway from British Burmah to a position in the Upper Yang-tse-kiang Yalleyi Mr Smalley, Now York correßpoimb'rft of the Times.states that the word " peace " is of tenost heard from men known to be amongst President McKinley's trusted ad visors.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9390, 17 March 1898, Page 2
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138CABLE NEWS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9390, 17 March 1898, Page 2
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