CABLE SUMMARY.
NEWS from Havannah states that Eiveru, who succeeded Maceo as commander of the Cuban insurgents, has been captured by the Spaniards." Before the Transvaal Baid Committee, Mr F. J. Newtou, Eesident British Commissioner in Beehuanaland, admitted that be offered to help Dr. Jameson, but did not inform Lord Bosmead. Petitions are being largely signed in the Orange Free State against the proposed union with the Transvaal. Halil Bey. the Turkish Governor of Sivas, in Asia Minor, has been dismissed owing to his being implicated in the Tokat massacre. The Government of the Argentine Eepublic have decided to resume the payment of interest in full to foreign bondholders. The betting on the University boat race is four to one on Oxford. Sir John Willoughby, one of the prominent figures in the Jameson raid, sentenced in July last to ten months' imprisonment, has been released. Lieutenant Eloff, an officer of the Transvaal military, has been suspended for using slanderous and insulting language against Queen Victoria. Mr Greene, the British resident in Pretoria, demanded Eloff's dismissal, and President Kruger replied expressing his regret at the officer's conduct.
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Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 115, 3 April 1897, Page 3
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186CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 115, 3 April 1897, Page 3
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