Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2075, 4 August 1896, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[By Telbgra<ph.]

[from oor owN'OOßKrcsnom>KNT.] Paris, August 2.

A fire at the N-ante dock destroyed a number of warHiwnees. The damage is estimated at one million, '

The FYeneh Socialist workers demand universal free -education, including the Universitk, and have approved of a tribunal of arbitration for the final settlement of di&putes. €airo, August 2.

..... jAfcob Stalt rittr, one engineers for;- ponstracting , thp railway towards D'ongolp,-die4 of. fhqlera at Tiraeh. ,

Th:ry-six Oroatians have ..been tried for a series of murders and robberies. Nineteen were ernidetn'ief) to death, and ton to loh« lermsof ppnil servitudf.

IiONT.-ON, .Angnst. 8.

Tn the \tjf»tnrli»us second innings, PonsfhtT took three wicket* f«jr 75 rnns,

not 7.

Hip folWins ivne jl«yefß htivo. been (l('fi:vitflv olio-en to reiT.smit E-ngland in th* 1 fiii.il test, 'hi etch rtpxt wpek :— <todd«rt Omin.AM. UichHr.Unn Haywar<l, Li'lpy.. J ck-on, iiaij ihirilji and Grnc.p 'Ibvf ~fi>ru*v\nz t. v O will be splectnd from Peel, Tjohmnnn, Henrne, un>\ Captain Wit»)'»>r<J. .