CABLE BEEVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 139, 13 June 1892, Page 3

CABLE BEEVITIES.

Bakon Haber is dead. He leaves property valued at three and one-fifth millions.

Mr Cowell, of Trinity College, has attained the position of Senior Wrangler of the University. Several of the ladies belonging to Girtori College and Newnham College, Cambridge, have been placed as Wranglers. Middlesex defeated Gloucestershire by an innings and 102 runs. Middlesex scored 538 run 8, of which number W. S. Scotb made 244.

Mr W. B. Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, has forwarded to his Government a report on the manila and sisal productions.

Mr T. A. Edge, of the North and Wavorly Road Bicycle Club, has completed the journey between Land's End to John O'Groats, a distance of 874 miles, in 4 days 40 minutes, thus beating the record of Mr G: P. Mills (4 days 11 hours 17 minutes) by over ten hours.

The Rev. Thos. Spurgeon has arrived in London, and it is arranged that he shall occupy the Tabernacle for three months. Information has been received that the French troops have occupied Whydah, a district forming a province of Dahomey, on the west coast of Africa.

Four horse-poisoners have been committed for trial at Capetown. Six London Electric Railway Bills are before Parliament. One has already been passed, giving power for electricity to ba used on the Finsbury Park City line. The Right Hon. Edward Stanhope, Secretary of State for the War Department, has instituted a special decora* tion for volunteer officers of 20 years' standing.

The Premier of New South Wales, in his letter to the "Economist," reiterates that the colony which is administered by his Government has no intention of continuing borrowing or of floating a loan ail present.