Digest of Calais News.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 310, 6 October 1899, Page 3

Digest of Calais News.

. .» Tuesday. The commission of inquiry into the Sydney Police department, had the Gattou murder cases under review. M'Neill expressed his belief that Michael Murphy was coaxed into the paddock where the murder of himself and his two sisters was perpetrated. Me had Huspiciou as to who committed Lhe murders, but gave no p&rt'cular reason. The Foureau Laruy expedition ia the French Soudan, recently reported to have been annihilated, have reached the Oasis of Air. The party lost two o' 1 their members in an encounter with the natives. Eleven of the Scotsman s paaBenyerd were drowned. There are complaints that the crew showed insubordination and twenty-three of the crew have been ai rested at Montreal on a charge of looting the passengers' effects. The damage by the destruction of 15 business premises at Eliania by fire ia £7000. The weather in South avl*--trali* i« most unseasonable. Saow is fulling in many parts of the colony, and in acme localities where it has not iallen fot 30 yenrs. j From Noumeaa news to hand ii is reported that a Presbyterian missionary and some teachers have been murdered at Tabna. it evidently refera to the death of of three Presbyterian tni>sion»ries — Reva William W.itt, Alexander Gillies and G. H. L. Pafcon. Mr Watt is a veteran missionary, h'rst stationed at 'fauna in I8G9; Mr Gillies arrived at Tann.i in 1897; and Mi' Patoa was in 1897 appointed to West Tanna. The Philippine insurgents in the island of Mindanao, ard at Garcit Hernandez, in the isiand of Bohol, have tendered their submission to General Otia. At the present series of wool sales in London 136,8()6 bales were catalogued and 125,b23 sold. All classes are easier. The following; clips were sold; "Takapau, " 6fci; " Kangatoug," Hid- _ _ i The London market ia as follows: — ■ i Frozen mutton : Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes — Canterbury, 3 hd ; Dunedin and Southland, 3 3-16 J; Nor Ji j Islaud, 3.1-16 d. Lamb: Primi Canter- | bury, 4^-d; fair average (including Dunedin, Southland, Wttlliugton, and Secondary Canterbury), 4<d. Wednesday. Hard frost a aud want of raiu are damaging tho crops in the northern district of Victoria. The D vily Tekv.raph'd j prt-limnary eotim-ita of the whea" crop j in New South, Wales, outlook is promising. There ia 10 per ceut. more land j under crop, and the total yield ib 14,500) j 000 bushels. ! There is an epidemic of i \ft n<z i in \ Adelaide. The Premier and a nuiority j of the Ministers are amoagsf. the auff j ,i - ! era, only two beiag able to aitend their ! offiney, i Ad the result of tha adverse | findiug by a select committee ia reference j to his connection with and acceptance i of certaiu tenders when ,-ic ing warden j at Sciah.-tn for the M-trin^ Boird, Cap" | tain Miles has resigned his portfolio of I Lands and Public Works in Tas- | mania. j

The three Powers interested ia Samoa are studying a schema by which each Posei wili b-> responsible tor paac3 ovk 1 some -r^a ia Samoa. ', At the London wool siles there in slightly better compet.itiin. ! The Venezuelan Arbitration d-.ni- ] mission awarded V^n zu«la, ; Buma Poini, and the mouth of rhe Orinoco, otherwise it mainly adhered to the Schotnberi» line of delimit ition, Venezuela gets less than Great Bri'ain which gets all the goldfields, with equality in navigation. London commercial cablegrams state that wheat ia very firm, Eng i*h is Is dearer on the week. Prices at the wool sales generally are 5 per cent bslow the opening rates. The following clips sold:— X ST, 7£l; Mount Dundee, 23id.