LATEST GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3864, 6 October 1899, Page 6

LATEST GENERAL CABLES.

(Received October 6, 0.52 a.in.) DISCOVERT OF NUG. -.S. ; PERTH, Thursday. A prospector- named Simmons has discovered a 108 oz nugget of gold near Kurnui.'pi. Simmons recently found a 109 oz nugget in the same district. CABLE COMMUNICATION. SYDNEY, Thursday. The Victorian Postmaster-General (Mr Duffy) is in Sydney conferring with tho 'Postmaster-General of New South Wales (Mr Crick) with reference to tho Pacific and Cape caljle schemes. AMATEUR ATHLETICS. I SYDNEY Thursday.’ The New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association has chosen Bbsengrave, Rowley, Laidlaw and English as fom of the colony’s six representatives at the Queensland Championship Meeting. CITY TREASURER SENTENCED. LONDON, Wednesday. James Colquhomi, late Treasurer or the Glasgow Municipality, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on charges ’of embezzlement, AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION. - MELBOURNE, Thursday. An expedition which, was sent to- explore in the neighbourhood of the Leopold Ranges, Western Australia-, has discovered a. wide stretch of splendid pastoral country, Watered .by running streams. A REFORM IMPEDED. PERTH, Thursday. A motion in favour of tho abolition of plural voting was defeated in tho Legislative Assembly -yesterday/ OBITUARY. LONDON, Thursday. _ Tho death •is announced of Horatio Tennyson, brother of the late Poet Laureate, at the ago of 80 years. SALE OF THE CAROLINES. MADRID, Thursday. The Spanish Government has received payment for the Carolines, which, aftov the war with the United States, she sold to Germany.