Digest of Cable News

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 8

Digest of Cable News

■♦ Tuesday The steamer Duke of Buckingham, bound for Queensland, has returned to Plymouth disabled. She experienced a heavy gale lasting three hours. Her pumps were choked, and the fires in the furnaces extinguished. The crew were bailing with buckets. The Trades Union Congress, sitting at Plymouth, unanimously approved of pensions to workers who attained the age of 60 years, regardless oi thrift. The American Arctic expedition, under the command of Lieutenant Peary, has returned to St. Johns. The Reid Ministry, N.S.W., have resigned, and Mr Lyne has been summoned to form a new Ministry, London cables advise : Frozen Meat. — Mutton : Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes — Canterbury, 3id ; Dunedin and Southland, 3d; North Island, 2d-}. Lamb : Prime Canterbury, 4|d; fair average (including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury), 4fd. Good rama throughout South Australia have greatly improved the crop prospects. Tbe blacks have raided Braeside homestead at Bamboo Creek, Perth, W.A. They killed Dr Vines, and bidly speared Mr Hodgson, the manager. Wednesday. Five of Guerin's companions in his garrison are Buffering from typhoid. Lieutenant Peary's expedition failed to reach any unexplored point. Raiu has fallen in the Western India diatricts, where drought conditions prevailed. Mr Barton's name is mentioned among the probable members of Mr Lyne's Ministry. A disastrous fire occurred in Sydney. The Tivoli Theatre, a new, handsome brick building, owned and run by Harry Rickards, was burned out. Considerable damage was also done to the Arcadia Hotel, adjoining the theatre. Thursday The Tekoa did not founder. She struck an unknown object in the Straits of Le Maire, between Staten Island and the mainland, on August 10. The forehold and forepeak were filled with water, and 20,000 carcase^ of mutton were jettisoned. A revolution has occurred in Venezuela, acd tbe forces under General Castro have defeated the Government troops, capturing 2000 of them. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for Great Britain is 2,080,000 qu-ntfu-s, and. for the Continent 1,390,000 quarters. The lighthouse keeper at Adelaide reports thab an unknown ship was wrecked on Buffalo Island. There are no details. Lloyd's t-urveyor at Fremantle, as a result of careful calculation, concludes 'hit the Waikato is within a few hundred miles of the Weat Australian coast, and that she has already drifted 3600 miiea almosc due easterly from her position where spoken by the vessel recently arrived at Newcastle. A Reucer'rf despatch states that the gravest fears are expressed at Capetown for the safety of the Waikato. Private cable advices have been received at Melbourne that the Aberdeen liner Thermopylae was wrecked near Capetown. All the passengers and crew were saved. The steamer left Sydney on August 11 for London, via the Cape. She has a large general cargo, including 1800 bales of wool ' aud heavy consignments of tallow and meat. The Legislative Assemby N.S.W., adjourned until to-morrow, when Mr , Lyue will announce a Ministry. j f