CABLE FLASHES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3009, 22 December 1896, Page 2

CABLE FLASHES.

Mr Want, Attorney-General of Now South Wales, will visit Now Zealand on a holiday trip next week. Sir Henry Wrixon, Messrs Tumor (Premier of Victoria), Deakin and Mclntyre will represent Victoria at the Federal Council. Sir Henry Norman, Sir Edward Grey and Sir D. M. Barbour have been appointed a Commission to enquire into the state of the West Indian sugar industry. The death is announced of the Earl of Normanton. The South Australian Parliament has been prorogued, 'ibis step put a stop to an acrimonious debate in the Legislative Assembly on a motion to print the reports of Crs Napier and Smith on the evidence given b.'.foro the Hospital Committee. At times the Speaker was unable to maintain order. A bomb was exploded in a chemist’s shop at Caasano. South Ita ? y. Five people were killed and six injured. The Parsons turbine, a new invention, has been applied to a vessel at Newcastle, which easily registered 29 knotsjan hour with.its aid. Mr Gresswell, President of the Board of Health, Melbourne, is of opinion that if the Oriental bubonic plague spreads to the Old Country the greatest care will be necessary to prevent it extending to Australia, The matter is sufficiently important to justify an intercolonial conference ou the subject being held without delay. Sir Robert Peel has been ordered to restore to his family a quantity of plate and other heirlooms, valued at jC3900, which he had converted to bis own use.