SECOND EDITION. LATEST NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 June 1891, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. LATEST NEWS.

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(peb HIESS ASSOCIATION .) ** London, May 2. A powerful syndicate is arranging to light the city of Melbourne by eleotricity. The motive power will bo water and the capital of the Company will probably be £200,000. The Irish census roturns show a decrease in population of half a million in the last decade. Four thousand employees of the London General Omnibus Company threaten to go out on strike on Friday unless their demand for 12 hours per day and and an increase of wages is conceded. The baccarat case was resumed to-day. Sir Chas. Eussell's crossexamination of Sir Gordon Cumming ia regarded as damaging to the plaintiff's case. The evidence to-day elicited but few new facts. The plaintiff under cross-examina-tions asserted innocence as regards tho play and explained that his winning from the Prince of Wales and others was owing to tho syatern of his play. Tho examination of the Prince of Wales was brief and his evidence colorless. He said that the statement of five eye-witnesses that they had observed Sir Gordon Gumming choated evidently influenced his judgment in the matter. General Owen Williams was examined and admitted that he did not see any cheating on the part of the plaintiff. Still he and others signed tho confession in ordor to secure the required silence. The witness declared that the Prince of Wales told Sir Gordon Cumming that to play with his hands on the table did not look well. He said Mr Lysett Green, son-in-law of Mrs Arthur Wilson, at whose residence the offence is alleged- to have been committed, was the first to accuse plaintiff of cheating, aud Mr Berkeley Levett also witnessed it. The Loudon County Council has been informed by its Chairman, Sir John Lubbock, that it will soon be essential for tho Council to expend the sum of twenty-five millions on necessary works in the city. These include a water supply, completion of the drainage system and tho rebuilding of London bridge. Tho census returns show tho population of London to be 4,211,000.