CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7440, 10 August 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

REMARKABLE SL .NDER ACTION,

COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING IN

NEW YORK,

ANOTHER SHIPWRECK AND LOSS

OF LIFE,

THE KUCHENG MASSACRE.

SENSATIONAL CONSPIRACY CASE

IN SYDNEY.

[PBB FBEBS ASBOOIATIOW.—COPYRIGHT.]

Lordon, August 8. Purchaees are being mado of notes, draft, and deposit receipts on the Oity of Mcl! bourne Bank. Several thousand pounds worth were bought to-day at 17s 6d in the £1.

Tbo Edinburgh meeting finally agreed to the Australian 'Deposit aud Mortgage Bank's scheme subject to the bank repaying 30 per cent oe the old deposit debenture debt iv three annual inrttaiments of 10 pec cent each, instead of si_ instalments ot 5 per cent o»oh.

A remarkable aotion for slander is being heard which is causing a great stir ia society Mrs Jseoby, a member of the Badminton Hunt, charges Dowager-Lady Cowley with accusing her of writing and circulating obscene letters The plaintiff asserts that Lady Oowley herself wrote them.

August 9. A quarter of a million of the oapital issued by the Australian timelting Oompany was over-subscribed. It is intended to ereot works at illawarra immediately. The machinery will be oapable of treating 200,000 tons of the sulphides annually. Contracts are out for it, and a portion will be shipped on Friday.

The imports for July show an increase of £3,292,000, and the exports £2,160,000 W. G. Graoe has already scored 2000 runs this season in fir— -class matches.

Obituary—Lionel Oowen. New Tobk, August 9. An eight-storey building, being erected in West Bro jaway, collapsed, aud eighty workmen engaged upon it fell to the basement, -ghteen being killed. The cause was the pilling up of materials near the lift on each floor.

Seventeen men from tho ship Prince Oscar have landed at Philadelphia. Their ship came into colliaon with a vessel unknown, and both sauk. Forty in all were drowned.

Sh-NQHai, Augu.t 9. Mabel Hartford, an Amerioan missionary, states that the mob at Kuoheng attacked the mission station at seven in the morning. She herself was nearly speared, but got off with a severe beating. Topsy Saunders e-caped to Dr. Stewart's house, but was killed outside Miss Gordon's head was almost sevtred from her body.

.'iYDMBY, august 8. A sensational conspiracy case has been

occupying the Court. List year Judge Wiudeyer granted 1 homos Bichard Butler a decree nisi for divorce from his wife on-— the grounds of adultery with George Williams, who*, real name has been since ascertained to be Charles Davis. Subsequent revelations led the Grown to prefer against Butler, Davis, and a woman named feake a charge of conspiracy by falsely accusing Mrs Butler. Evidence was submitted to prove that Davis and Feake hid been paid by Butler to lead his wife astray in order that he might obtain a divorce. All three accused were found guilty, the jury adding 1 a rider that Mrs Butler had not committed the offence for whioh the divorce was granted. Butler and Davis were sentenced to seven years, aod the woman Peake to four years' imprisonment. Bofo, who acted as solicitor for Butler in the divorce proceedings, haa been arrested on a charge of conspiracy.