CABLE SUMMARY.
"By a fire on board the Mallory line of Bteame. • Leona, en her voyage from New "Xork to Galveston, in Texas, Ihirteen persons were suffocated. The officers, with loaded revolvers in hand, compelled eighteen stokers, who attempted to desert the burning vessel, to resume work.
Tho authorities of Hamburg desire to obtain Australian sleepers at 4s Gd. The municipal engineer in Paris is negotiating for a supply of hardwood for street-paving purposes. The capital of £3,30,000 of M'llars' Karri and Jarrah Forests Company, formed for developing the West Australian timber trade, has been over subscribed. Mr 11. W. Eichards, Sydney City Surveyor, who recently visited the principal Continental cities, states that the abattoirs at Berlin are tho finest model establishments of the kind ho has seen. Street-cleaning is sp'endidly carried out, but is costly Electric lighting on the Continent is not making progress. The incandescent system is regarded as satisfactory. With regard to electric frams he found that the accumulator system was a costly one, and not likely to supersede the system of overhead wires for tram cars.
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Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 133, 13 May 1897, Page 3
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180CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 133, 13 May 1897, Page 3
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