CABLEGRAMS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN
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SUGGESTED CHURCH SYNOD. LONDON, July 24. (Received July 25, at 0.20 a.m.)
Dr Creighton. Bishop of London, recommends legislation to establish a. representative church synod, consisting of clergy and laity, with a view to enabling church opinion to prevail over eccentricities.
COMMERCIAL.
Consols are quoted at £98. . Wheat on Mark Lane is quoted at 6d
lower on the week. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,345,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,340,000
ouartera
INTERCOLONIAL.
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THE MOUNT WILLIAM RUSH. MELBOURNE, July 25. (Received July 25, at'lo.4o p.m.)
The Government geologist reports that at the Mount William rush some claims are giving a fair yield. There is not room for a- large number of men there. So far no reefs have been discovered.
BRAVERY RECOGNISED
The Royal Humane Society have awarded bronze medals to Win. Haines, of Dannevirke, and Charles Jacobsen, of Lower Takaka, New Zealand.
ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISH MENT.
SYDNEY, July 25. (Received July 25, at 9.40 a.m.)
The Assembly threw out the bill in favour of the abolition of capital punishment.
MISSION JUBILEE. (Received July 26, at 0.30 a.m.)
Bishop Courtney, of Nova Scotia, arrived by the Warrimoo to attend the jubilee of the Anglican Board of Missions, to be held in Sydney next month.
OBITUARY. BRISBANE, July 25.
(Received July 25, at 9.15 a.m.) Mr W. A. Hodgkinson, ex-Minister of Mines.
ATTACKED BY NATIVES.
PORT DARWIN, July 25. (Received July 25, at 10.20 a.m.)
Ivan Eggorefl'e, engineer' of the launch Wunyullah, was picked up on a drifting dingey at sea. He states that he and another European named Larsen, and three blacks, formed the crew of the launch. The blacks wounded him with a tomahawk, and threw him overboard, but he managed to get ashore. He. found the dingey, but the launch had disappeared. It is believed that the. blacks murdered Larsen. The police are searching.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11795, 26 July 1900, Page 5
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