NEWS BY CABLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 7005, 2 October 1897, Page 1

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS, i [By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (per united press association.) Received October 1, at 7.10 p.m. London, September 30. The typhoid outbreak at Maidstone, in Kent, is assuming alarming proportions. Eleven hundred cases are reported, and the death rate is increasing. A severe thunderstorm passed over London. Several persons were killed. The Ottawa correspondent of the Times states that in July next the Canadian tariff will be made essentially pro-British. Received October 1, at 11.10 p m. Madrid, September 30. Dissension amongst the Conservative sections of the Cortes caused Premier Azcariagua to resign. Calcutta, September 30. Reports have been received that the bubonic plague has reappeared in the Karochi district. London, September 30. At a meeting of representatives of the Victoria and New Zealand meat distribution agencies, Mr N. Levi, M.L.C., Victoria, presiding, it was decided to support Mr D. Kellerman's scheme for supplying frozen meats to the London hospitals for a month with a view of testing its suitability as a diet for patients. Mr Kellerman is the well-known meat distribution expert, and this is the outcome of an organisation formed by him for bringing Australian and New Zealsnd meats more prominently before the public. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ( j er united press association. ) Received October 1, at 11.10 p m. Sydney, October 1. The Mayor officially welcomed the intercolonial athletes. Work is temporarily stopped in the Wickham Colliery owing to further extensive falls In abandoned workings. One hundred and sixty men were working in other portions of the pit when an enormous rush of air and dust extinguished all the lights. The men in a panic rushed the shafts, but fortunately all escaped without injury. Received October 2, at 0.35 a.m. Sydney, October 1. The quarterly revenue returns show a decrease of L 160.000 as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. Melbourne, October 1. The revenue increased by Lio,ooo upon ; the corresponding; quarter. i Cooktown, October 1. i A rising cf natives has taken place near : Mount Victoria, New Guinea. They are besieging two mining and police parties, who are without water. The Governor has left with relief forces.