AMERICAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 194, 24 July 1883, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

A NE W C ABL E S YSTE M.

VISIT OF MRS LANGTRY TO MELBOURNE.

SHOOTING AFFRAYS

CAPTAIN WEBB.

San Fbancisco, July 10. Alderman Hadley, of London, after a long negotiation at New York, has completed a satisfactory arrangement for a new ocean cable system, embracing the Pacific coast of the Dominion of Canada, Japan, Australia, China, and India. A secret, convention was held m . Indianapolis oa the 28th Jane to. or--ganise a Company and issue 300,000,000 dollars m stock to build a double track narrow gauge road from New York to San Francisco, and from Chicago to New Orleans. Norris CJrenivall, of Melbourne, has concluded arrangeniants with Mrs Langtry for a sixteen weeks' engagement there. ; The Brooklyn Police Commissioners hare voted the .Salvation Ara?y a nuisance, and summarily suppressed their street business. , J South Grey's Opera House, Boston,, was burned on Ijjth Jane. Ths loss is estimated it 100,000 -follars:..: - ;-. .. - : „ . John K-lly aai James Cool, Ciacinatti Ald»?r u^ had a little misunderstanding <m the 19 r h about exchanging bat 9. Notwithstanding that * obi said he was only i . "ua Kelly shot am killed him at onse, to prevent, he said, "fuether fooliuvj," A sanguinary affair occurred m th^ ''■"/ourt Hillston, ) mntv. 0. "Z. " T?;ilc^r, ""ani v B% " TaohTM^fft^iar- * in-law and sou<«in-.law, were parties m a tiifling suit, involnug two dollars-, andduring the evidence Baker called hia sou-rin-law a liar. Pistols were resorted to, and both were killed iii less thau five minotes., A.n organisation called the fri-th Total Separation Society held its first meeting m Ohicigoon 25th Jurie^ The object of the Society is to enlist the sympathy of the United States^ Ffraoce, and Russia, to make Ireland a nation free and independent, separate from England, -' ' , Captain Webb, the champion English swimmer, undertakes to swim throughthe Niagra whirlpool on the 21st of July. An auction purchaee of 20 bales of medium hops, at 47 cents per lb, was made on the 17th , for New, Zealand, where good hops, it is reported, are scarce, : ; .:.;.. ; ■■■