CABLE NEWS. CREMATION.

Evening Post, Volume XLL, Issue 5, 7 January 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. CREMATION.

PACIFIC MAIL PROJECT. AUSTRALIAN CRUISERS. THE FIGHTING AT THE CAROLINES. IBY XLICTBIO TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. | | UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, sth January. The body of the late Mr. A. W. Kinglake will bs cremated. Sir E. C. N. Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, has arranged for a strong London Committee for an Exhibition to be held at Launceston. The syndicate over whioh Lord Hartington presides is willing to aocept a £10,000 subsidy from the Queensland Government for a mail service from Vancouver to Australia, and hope that, owing to the Imperial character of the service, the Victorian Government may be induoed to contribute £5000. The syndicate propose to establish a branoh service between Honolulu and San Franoisoo. H.M. ships Tauranga and Bingarooma, two of the Australian cruisers, will be commissioned on the 20th inst. and afterwards manned at Devonport, their complement being 212 men each. New York, sth January. The fire which gutted Hermann's Theatre in Fifth Avenue and injured Sturtevant House originated through the eleotrio light wires. The census shows the United States birthtnte to be 2,000,000 below the previous decade. San Francisco, sth January. - The Hawaiian Government is parleying with the Government of Canada for improved I trade relations. Manila, sth January. The natives of the Caroline Islands »Uaoked the Spanish troops, but were reJ pulsed under the heavy fire of the gatling | guns, and lost heavily.