CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 2500, 9 August 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegkapb. — Copyrioht (per press association.) LONDON, August 8. It is reported that the Right Rev. J. Higgings, Bishop-Auxiliary of Sydney and Coadjutor to Cardinal Moran, will be appointed to suoceed the late Dr Reynolds 1 as Archbishop of Adelaide. ; Twenty- two visitors to Aberavon in I Glamorganshire were drowned by the capsizing of a pleasure boat. The accident was witnessed by friends and relations | on the shore, wbo were frantic at tbe eight. I PARIS, August 8. I Muoh scurrilous literature is being published in Paris, witb a view to influenc- , ing elections. ; Capital is being made out of the nonarrest of Arton, one of tbe men implicated in tbe Panama scandal. ST. PETERSBURG, August 7. The Novoe Vremya says that Germany has agreed to a joint commission being appointed to settle tbe tariff dispute. ATHENS, August 7 The King ol Greece has formally opened tbe canal through tbe Isthmus of Corinth. Tbe work has cost two millions. MELBOURNE, August 8. Tbe Government propose to reclaoe fcbe rate of interest on deposits in the Savings Bank to 8i per cent.

Tbe committee appointed by English creditors in Goldsborough, Mort & Co. 'a estate have unanimously agreed to modify the scheme of reconstruction with the British directors.

The Government has deoided to abandon further proceedings ia the DaviesMillege case, leaving it to private persons to follow the matter up if they so desire.

ADELAIDE, August 8,

In compliance witb a request from the New Zealand Government, the Premier has forwarded a lengthy report on the working men's block system in this colony.