CABLE SUMMARY.
Abdul Fedel's followers are deserting him and joining General Parsons. The German Minister proposes that the Powers should seize the Shanghai-Rwau railway unless the trnops are removed to Pekiu. The Japanese Government has resigned, owing to internal dissensions. The Union Company's steamer Mokoia on her trial trip attained 16 knots. A schoolmistress at Trieste, named Tressa, who had fallen in love with a married man, poisoned the man's wife and children and her own mother, and finally she poisoned the man she had made a widower because he refused to marry her. A destructive fire has occurred at Srinagar, capital of the State of Kashmir, and damage has been done to the extent of £66,000. Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner of Soutli Africa, has issued a proclamation warning residents against raiding Transvaal cattle. All the Chinese waterways have been opened to vessels registered at the treaty ports. Two clerks engaged in a foundry at Dcptford have recovered Maskellyne's offer of £SOO for producing a correct imitation of his notable box trick.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 362, 3 November 1898, Page 2
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173CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 362, 3 November 1898, Page 2
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