CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1517, 5 January 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph. — Reuter's Copyright.

LONDON, December 25. A proposal has been made that colonial colleges should be founded at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in connection with the celebration next year of the Queen's Jubilee. SYDNEY, January 4. The Executive Council have decided that the sentence of death shall be carried out on six of the prisoners who were convicted of the Mount Rennie outrage. The executions will take place on - Friday next. The certificate of Knowles, second officer of the Helen Nichol, has been suspended for three months. MELBOURNE, January 4. The Argus makes a preliminary estimate of eleven to twelve million bushels as the yield of wheat for Victoria this season. In the cricket match yesterday, England v. Australia, Barnes batted splendidly for 93, Spofforth bowling most deadly. An analysis shows that the majority of smallpox cases are mild, but three are pronounced likely to prove fatal. Five additional cases were reported today. The actual number of smallpox cases at the quarantine station is seventeen, only three being considered dangerous. The doctors do not expect auy further development of the epidemic. The half-yearly return of the Victorian railways show a large increase in despite of the reductions which have recently been made in the fares.