CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 35, 10 February 1909, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Indian 7{ million 3£ per cent, loan at 97 has been over-subscribed.

The American battleship Delaware,' of 20,000 tons, has been launched.

The Admiralty is forming a reserve of operators for wireless telegraphy. King Edward has given a hundred guineas to the Salvation Army for work amongst the poor. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has been dissolved. The elections' will talce place on March 1. '■ -.\ Another thousand men ■ have, in response to the "Daily appeal, joined the territorial army.

Menelik, the Emperor of Abyssinia, has improved in health, and is now en-, gaged in a motor.tour of his dominion. The engagement is announced of Lord. Dalm.eny, the eldest son. of the Earl of Rosebery, with Dorothy, the .daughter of Lord Henry Grosyenor. Ernest Alexandre , Honore Coquelin, brother of the late Benbit Constant Coquelin, is dead. The "Standard" declares that the Somali Mullah, whose late aggression necessitated the increase of the British forces, has three columns of 10,000 men each, one-half being riflemen,. and apparently is anxious to force a campaign upon the British. - :. „", v, " • ~■;<-.■,; '■.■'■'■.{-"