GENERAL ITEMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11128, 21 January 1899, Page 3

GENERAL ITEMS.

Beceivea Jaruary 20, 12.30 p.m. London, January 19. Eighty-one of the rebels who took part in the recent rising in Sierra Leone, as a result of which a number of Europeans and friendly natives were massacred, have been tried and executed. The British barque Southesk, which loaded cargo at Glasgow for Lyttelton, New Zealand, has been wrecked off the coast of Galway. Mr C. H. Murray, chairman of the Inland Revenue Department, succeeds Mr Walpole as Secretary of the Postoffice. Cairo, January 19. The efforts of Italy to bring about t reconciliation between King Menelik and his rebellious ex-General, Has Marigascia, have been successful, and the parties have conoluded a treaty of amity. Sydney, Friday. Afc the electric light cycling carnival last night the Champion Stakes was won by Forbes, the New Zealander, with Eliotfc second, and Simpson third. Forbes got home by half a length after a great finish. Megson and M'Donald, the Australian cracks, who were amongst the starters, fell. Time, 23min 40 3-sth sec/ Perth, Friday. Two natives are charged with the murder, at Peak Hill, of a twelve-year-old native boy, whom they strangled and offh ate, in conformity with a religious observance consequent on the recent death of tho boy's brother. The Executive Council have called upon Mr Stevens, manager of the Telegraph Department, to make good the sum of .£940 which recently disappeared from 1 the Telegraph Department under mysterious circumstances.