Digest of Cable News

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3098, 12 September 1899, Page 7

Digest of Cable News

» .. ■ * Friday Mr John Cooke, the Victorian meat expert, haa formed the Austral Meat Company, with a capital of £100,000. The company have purchased five meat works in New South Wales. Mr Cooke leaves for Australia, via America, next week. The Hon. J. Gr. Ward returns to New Zealand by the French mail steamer Polynesian. I The Victorian Legislative Council, by 27 to 17, rejected the Women's Suffrage Bill. Two miners—John Peach and Eichard Tudgey — working alone near Bairnadale, were killed by foul air. Tudgey's corpse was found bending over that of Peach's. The evidence showed that the latter was overcome, and his mate slid down to his rescue? to be in turn overcome. H.M.S. Melpomene, which left Mauritius to search for the missing Waikato, has return to Capetown without having sighted the disabled steamer. In the cricket match against a Sou',h of England team, the Australians m*de 150 runs in their first innings, and 352 in tneir second for seven wickets, South of England's first innings realised 183 runs, and requiring 320 runs to win, were all disposed of for a total of 207. Australia thus won by 1 12 runs. Saturday Sir Thomas Lipton has offered £50,000 for the Lakes of Killarney, intending to present them to the Irish nation. The Bishops of Eochester and Salisbury urge the clergy of their dioceses to show the obedience to the Archbishops' decisions forbidding the use of incense and processional lights. The directors of the Bank of Australasia have declared a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent., and carried forward £10,282. Mondays In persuance of treaties, Japan has opeDed 22 additional ports for trade. The Indian Grovernment establishes gold immediately as a legal tender, and fixes the value of the rupee at 16d.