Show I CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS I M WlU the distinguished Swiss statesman who was six timed elected president of the Swiss confederation died I yesterday in his 74th year I Australian advices quote Premier Reid as saying that the question of I Pacific cable Is now hung up Bending a de1 cis Ion of the home government deI I Sir John Struthers 1L D LLD vice I president of the Royal college of surgeons Edinburgh and examiner in anatomy he ngf I Royal college of i Is dead He was born In 1S23 I General Gaetan de Grlmaudet Rocje bouet who was premier and minister of i war under Marshal MacMahon second president died yesterday of the In Third hiss Republic SGth year of France I A sensational discovery of opal Is reported I ported from Opalton Queensland The i find is said to be one of the biggest blocks hl sbl I F f of opal ever discovered Its value being estimated between 7 0CO and noW f There are persistent rumors among the the natives at Peshawur that the Ameer rof Afghanistan Abdur Rahrann Khan is i I dead The Indian Government has not received any confirmation of this r not ij i j < t i j l I X j 1 |