CABLE BREVITIES.
Under the Brussels agreement it is arranged to purchase forty per cent, of the Cape-to-C tiro railway plant in Great Britain. Mr Hubert Williams, a welt-kno»n> ai! "ay concessionaire, holds Mr Rhodes' wirt-n authorisation to connpc? Mithonaland with the Congo Free State «< ction of the line.
The Belgian strike has entirely fizzled out and work has bpen resumed, owing to the Government's firmness and the lack of strike funds.
The po'ice have again struck the tracks of the Kenniffs (the Queensland bushrangers) on the Great Dividing Range, going in the directum of Bunya Mountains. The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Turakina bas been launched at Newcastle-on-Tyn". A serious nil way accident ocourred at Hackney Downs on the Great Eastern (Enghnd) railway. Tbe axle of an engine broke, bringing the train to a eudden stop and causing some of the carriages to tilt. Some fatalities occurred and Ecorrs were injured.
A conference of Australian State Premiers will be held at Sydney on May 15th to ditensa a number of important State questions. Mr Barton (Federal Premier) has received from the Colon : al Officls letters patent containing the terms of taking over by tha Commonwealth of the administration "f N»-w Guinea.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 28 April 1902, Page 3
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202CABLE BREVITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 28 April 1902, Page 3
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