CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3245, 8 October 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

B By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright ' (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) I LONDON, October 7. j Tbe press, commenting on Lord Tennyson's deatb, lament the loss of one of i_ England's greatest sons. The foreign f press -has published appreciative notices. 1 Hallam Tennyson, son of the late poet, k will write his father's biography. I PARIS, October 7. [ There is a growing agitation in France c against tbe protection tariff, especially in I so far as it affects wool. French troops routed tbe Dahomeyans * at Pongressa, killing 2000. Their own j loss was only 19 killed and 22 wounded. J BUDA PESTH, October 7. c Forty-Geven cases of cholera are reported 17 of which were fatal. MELBOURNE, October 6. 1 There *as a large meeting to-day of shareholders in tbe Mercantils Banki j when Sir M. Davies declared that he had t been the largest depositor himself, and had - suffered largely. When be sat down a ? scene of great disorder ensued. The ' chairman deolined to put a motion desiring 3 tbe Government to prosecute the directors. 3 The meeting dispersed amid uproar. » SYDNEY, October 7. » A large eight hour demonstration has * been held at Broken Hill. Strike matters r have not changed, and so far neither side ■ has displayed any weakness. > The new Electoral Bill proposes a reduction of members from 137 to 125, I MELBOURNE, Ootober 7. Prato, tbe Negro charged with being an j accessory to tbe murder of Cornwall, a [ iarmer at Warraoknabeil, for which Mrs. , O'Brien was sentenoed to death, has been ' acquitted.