CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10590, 7 September 1896, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

j O ; Mr JuUan Thomas was found dead in bis < bsd, death being due to asthma and failure i of the heart. | The ship Dear war spoke the Tarauaki, ! bjuad from London to Dnnedis, on June 30, i in latitude 6deg. N. j After receiTing Sir William Windeycr'a ! Ksigoation, the vacancy on the Net? South I Wales bench was first offered to Mr J. H. : Want, the Attorney-general, who refused it. j The Government Resident in the Northern 1 Territijry has returnod to Port Darwin, sad i confirms the discovery of a magnificat • harbour on Melville Island, i The ballot in Australia on the' question o£ ! Methodist union shows—For union 11,321, j against 2440, of whioh tbe Wtaleyan body j recorded 8518 for and 2243 against, j London banking experts consider the scheme of the conversion of Australian otocks j proposed by Treasurer Fysh, of Tasmania, j ! impracticable at present, as the increment i« too email. Experts have'severely criticised ths Compaoies Bill introduced, into tho Houee of Lords. The Special Committee have not yet reported on the measure, which will probably be greatly modified if again submHted to th<| Houee of Commons. ' The barque Ebenezer, bound co Mauritina from Sandalwood Tmlh.s.As, put in at Carnarvon, Western AustrgUa. The boatswain was washed overboard and drowned, and the cook died from dropey. One maa was ill with dysentery, another ftom consumption, ?.sd the remainder mere unable to wort t,W> vessel.