CABLE FLASHES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 36

CABLE FLASHES.

The American House of Representatives lias imposed an education test on immigrants. Charles Baker, who in 1883, under tho name of Cristi, had a land agency business in Melbourne, has been sentenced in America to seven years’ imprisonment for bigamy. A chandelier foil into the gallery of tho Paris Opera House, killing a lady and injuring three others. Alatiy of tho audience believed that a bomb had exploded, and a goneral rush was made for tho street. At a banquet in Sofia, Prince Ferdinand was about to proposo tho toast of “ The Powers,” when the Russian Envoy insisted that the princes under the suzerainty oi the Sultan of Turkey should take preoedenoo in the toast list. Prince Ferdinand resuiitod the suggestion, and refrained from proposing uny toast. Tho Doan Commission cost Now South Walos £1554. The Victorian AJinister of Agriculture hfl* opened an Intercolonial Conference, to consider tho rust in wheat pest.

The Trustees of the State Bank of South Australia are inviting tenders for <£20,000 worth of tit per cent, mortgage bonds. 'the great 300 feet wheel at Earlscourt, London,stopped revolvingsuddenly. Seventythree passengers were seated in ears which could not be reached, and were imprisoned for 10 hours. Five thousand Tigrinis escorted the Italian prisoners of King Menelek to Adigrat, where the Italian commander signed a receipt lor their transfer. In reply to a deputation from the Licensed Victuallers, who asked him to appoint a Loyal Commission to enquire into the liquor traffic prior to proceeding with the Local Option Bill, Mr Reid, Premier of Now South Wales, replied that while he believed the Commission would result in good, ho held out no hope of its being set up, as, by doing so, be would destroy the promise given to the temperance bodies some months ago.