LATEST NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 795, 22 June 1893, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 21. The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland's action against the Duke respecting the Littingsor's estate was dismissed. Judge ' Williams adjourned the hearing of a petition against the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank case, and it will probably be taken on Saturday. A petition- for 'the winding up the Royal: Bank of Queensland was also adjourned. The Judge gave official, sanction to the reconstruction of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. . 1 ' ' ' Cairo, June 21. It is reported that two hundred deaths occur daily at Mecca from cholera. 1 "Washington, June 21. Great forest fires are raging in Minnesota.' Four townships have been destroyed, . and several large cities are in danger. A train' returning- to .New York from a race meeting was wrecked, ten passengers being killed and one hundred injured. The signalman, who was asleep, has been arrested. . Ottawa, June 21. A fire at Frederickston, New Brunswick, destroyed eighty houses. ,- ] . , .. . . Sydney, This day. The Executive has decided that the death sentence on Archer for the murder of Miss Harrison must be carried' out. ' \ The New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association has passed a resolution expressive of its pleasure at New Zealand being willing to work with kindred associations to send an Australian team to the Pan-Britannic contests in Eugland. The local' association Bug-gestsj'-that a conference be held in Melbourne 'at the close of the first Australasian ohampionship meeting to disouss the subject. The Spanish warship Nautilus is reported to have left Newcastle for Wellington, New Zealand, and not Colombo, as previously stated.