Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2149, 7 May 1897, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[ffHOtf OOK OWN OOKBBSrONDKNT.] [By Tklkgkaph.] Byonp.t May 6. Mr McEwan, in an interview, stated th«t thrre w>is n<» tear of Australian batter »nd cheese failing to find a market in England, ho long *$ a high i standard of qnnlity wan ma ; nti>i,."<l. At present, however, no uniformity was maintained, and that was the Bluetdraw- ,- back. The encouraging oat look should stimulate exporters to persevere until they conld guarantee supplies of » uniI form grade. The system of pasturisa- ! tion waß greatly responsible for the success of Danish butter in this direction. I Paris, May 5. The leading ladies of tha Conservative Catholic puny were takiug a prominent part in the bazaar. There were five thousand people present, it beiag the busiest hour of the afternoon, and the h j at was stifling. Suddenly it was seen thiit the wall hangings near the cinematograph were on fire. The fl >mes spread raoidly, and in thirty mioutps the entire bnilding was destroyed. Aβ soon as the fl-imes wre obfserved a cry of fire was raised, and a terrible panio ensued. The crowds for the only egreee, where there was a tearful crush. The shrieks of the women and children were hearts rending, and the wa»kest were trampled to death. The fire was worst on the right side of tin- bazaar, the flimes cutting off communication aud preventing attempts made to re«;h the exit. Most of tho people were ! iirfhed to the opposite si ie and dashed against a stone wall. One hundred and frty of those in the bazaar escaped through a window. After the fire the ambulance men found the limbs of many victim - brokeD, and the sknlle of many others fractured. It was impossible to recognise the features of many of the dead. It is estimated that two hundred were killed an 1 a hundred injured. LosrnoN, May 5. Alf. Johnson, an Anstmlinn draughtsman, employed in the Admiralty Department, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. He left a statement to the effect that his father was ruined in the late Australian financial crisis. Washington, May 5. The Finance Committee of the (Senate has reported on the proposed tariff It bus be n largely altered. Wools, firstclass, have been reduced from 11 cents t> 8 cents per lb, and second-class from 12 cpnte to 9 cen'B per lb.