CABLE SUMMARY.
Mr Eeid has been notified by Sir S. Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, of his early retirement from the position. Mr Eeid praised Sir Saul Samuel's services to the colony, and said the Government would so arrange his retirement as to make it as agreeable as possible to him.
Terrible heat is being experienced throughout the United States. Over 2000 cases of severe prostration have been reported, and 35 deaths have occurred since the beginning of the month.
A terrible railway collision has occurred at Geontoffe, where the Helsingsfors express train came into collision with a passenger train. Forty persons were killed and GO injured. The passengers were chiefly of the artisan class.
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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 157, 15 July 1897, Page 3
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116CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 157, 15 July 1897, Page 3
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