CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, Issue 2178, 9 February 1898, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. PAMS 4IIOOUTION TILIOIAMS.j LOtfDOX. A steam launch capsized at Kiel while conveying a guard to a man-of-war. Nine sailors and three workmen were drowned. The Russian armoured cruiser Valdimir Monotnacb has sailed for China.

During a fire at Boston six firemen were killed by falling walls, and many others were injured. The French Chamber of Deputies has adopted amended Budget proposals which provide for the expenditure of 96,000,000 francs on the construction of warships during the year. . Le Temps, referring to the etagnat- - lon in the negotiations relating to the Niger, says that the position has been brought about to suit the purpose Mr Chamber more than to assist Lord Salisbury. It also asserts that Britain seeks the exclusion of France from the navigable portion of the Niger. Frozen mutton—New Zealand crossbred wether and maiden ewo: Canterbury, 3d 3-16th; Dunedin and Southland, 2-gd; North Island, 2|d. River Plate crossbred or merino wether (heavy), 2-gd ; light, 2^-d. Chief Justice Kotze of the Transvaal, in a letter to President Kruger, says the agreement to amend the grondwst, so as to define the exact pMlion of the Judges is still He now repudiates the arrangement come to by the Judges last year not to test in future any laws of the Yolksraad.

Colonel Mayne commanding the punitive force in Baluchistan reports from Turbat (Makran) that the enhtny are holding the fort. He is waiting the arrival of reinforcements, with explosives to capture the entrenchments. The Nazim and friendly tribes have joined Colonel Mayne. Seventeen additional British commissioned and other officers have been despa'ched to Lagos West Africa., ' In connection with the protest by the United States against Germany stopping the importation of American fruit, the German Imperial QazSTta explains that traces of a dangerous insect were discovered in Californian fruit.