NEWS BY CABLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6331, 12 August 1895, Page 1

NEWS BY CABLE.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. _ (per united press association,) Received August 11, at 9.30 p.m. London, August 10.

Lady Frances Gaining has been committed for trial on a charge of forging her father's name to bills of exchange. She has admitted the offence.

The owners of the Maori King have settled- the claim for damages to meat resulting from an accident to her refrigerating machinery in Sydney in December last by paying 50 per cent.

Mr Mitchell declares that Goldsborough, Mort, and Company's scheme secures for all time the Company's financial stability, and said the Victorian Ministry had promised to do all in its power to facilitate the passing of an Act to enable the change to be made.-

The Cowley slander case has been settled privately.' The ,Marquis of Salisbury has received reports that owing to Kurdish raids in Malori and Moorish Armenia the sowing of crops was prevented, and five thousand people are on the verge of starvation. A number of villages have been destroyed, and 800 people are said to be living in caves. Many are naked, and their only food is leaves of trees and green plants. "■/• Vancouver, August 10.

The Warrimoo went ashore at Cormanch Point in a dense fog. The weather was calm at the time, and the vessel floated off without any injury, and is being "towed here. All the passengers landed safely. She went ashore on the same spot as the Duchess of Argyle wreck. It is reported here that Mr J. W. Mackay, a director of the CanadianPacific Railway Company, and a number of San Francisco capitalists will co-operate to lay a Pacific cable. Berlin, August 10.

The German Press profess to be scandalised at the Powers upholding an agreement whieh is producing a state of anarchy in Samoa and urge that if the treaty be not cancelled the natives ought to be disarmed.

Received August'l2, at 0.30 a.m. Sofia, August 11,

In an engagement between the Turkish troops and Macedonian insurgents at Kuctendil the former were victorious, and the latter lost 200 killed. London, August 11.

The directors of the Manchester Canal Company are conferring with the AgentGeneral of Victoria relative t) a direct line of steamers from Australia to Manchester. In commercial circles it is believed that the negotiations will bear fruit. Sir Leonard Lyell has been re-elected for Orkney by a majority of 781.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received August 10, at 4.30 p.m. Melbourne, August 10. The fire an the steamer Orient is assuming a serious aspect. The bunker where the outbreak occurred is leaking, and is unable to hold sufficient water to quench the fire. It is feared the walls of the bunker will crack and the fire spread beyond control. The fire on the Orient was practically extinguished without spreading. Received August 12, at 0.35 a.m.] Sydney, August 11. Arrived —Miowera, from Vancouver ; Tarawera, from Auckland. Wright Bros.' boot factory was partially gutted by fire, and a large quantity of machinery and stock was destroyed, The damage is estimated at L6OOO. A peculiar feature of the fire was that while the outbreak took place on the upper floor, a distinct fire was discovered on the ground floor. A fireman named Lawson fell off the engine on the way to the fire, and was killed.

Melboubne, August 11.

The fire in the Orient soon subsided after the door between the watertight compartments, which had been left open and the fire allow ed to escape, was closed by the diver. Most of the cargo in the forehold was destroyed and the internal fittings of the vessel were very much destroyed.