CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 23 February 1899, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London.

THE PAVONIA.

Tne Pavonia spent twenty days in terrific weather. Some boilers got adrift in the hold and were only -^cured after four days' continuous exertion on the tenth mat. For two days the situation wa9 desperate. The British steamer Wolviatone omm^nced to tow her, ■ but the cable broke. They separated at nighf, but met again on the 18 b, md i he Pavonia was safely towed to he Az >res.

Passengers and crew are all safe. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN AFRICA.

Dc Rupert Hornabrook, of \d laide, who has br-en acting as a pecial p ague offio r at Bombay, he centre of the ravages of thy bubonic plague in India, has been appointed to proceed to the Transvaal o organise measures for the of the outbreak of piagua lately reported from the town of KnaDmin'-d^n-

OPPOSITION TO LORD KITCHENER'S ANNUITY. In th • British Hoa-e of Commons in reply to a question, (he Right Hou W. Brodrick, Undersecretary

of State for War, states that the Mahdi'a body had been thrown into the Nile, in order to destroy the anperatitioutj reverence of the Dervishes. On account of this proceeding, the Redmondites have declared that they will oppose the proposed annuity to Lord Ki'cbener of Khartoum. THE DUKE OF YORK VISITS DUBLIN. H. 8.8. the Duke of York, heir ■presumptive to ihs B. iti-h Oown, who viaitfld Ireland in 1891, will again pay a visit to Dublin in April this year.