NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 33, 23 October 1894, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

London, October 19. The New York correspondent of the Daily News states that the Republican leaders in view of the success of the new tariff are about to abandon protection. Lord Drumlaurig bus been killed by the accidental discharge of his own gun while shooting at Bridgewater. Berlin, October 20. Germany’s altitude to the Portuguese is friendly on account of their declining foreign assistance at Lorenzo Marquez. %• New York, October 20. A mob is besieging Washington Courthouse, Ohio,' in which a negro prisoner whom they want to seize for the purpose of lynching is being tried. The military are defending the-Court-house, Already eight of the attacking party have been killed and twenty wounded.

Shanghai, October 20. Prince Kung is strongly urging for peace.

Reports have reached here that the rumored rebellion in Hong Kow is not correct, and the statement that Li Hung Chang has degraded his nephew, Shing, Governor of Tienstin, is denied. Calcutta, October 20.

A report is current among the natives at Lahore that the Ameer is dead, and that with his last words he exhorted his son Habibulla to remain friendly to'the English.

News from Simla does not confirm the reported death of the Ameer. Adelaide, October 20.

The death is announced of John Dunn, the pioneer of the flour-milling industry in the colony. He has bequeathed £14,500 to local religious and charitable organisations. Melbourne, October 20.

Madame Melba arrives in August next, but will be unable to appear in opera. At a conference of the Council of the Congregational Union, Dr Bevau held that a protest should be raised against the interference of France with the natural development of the Malagasies. Consideration of the question was postponed. The unemployed have formed a committee representing the various suburbs, with the object of urging the local members to bring pressure on the Government in favor of the unemployed. The rich discovery made in the New; stead district is supposed to be a com donation of an old reef which, many years ago, yielded 20oz to the ton. Sydney, October 20. The Judge, in summing up in the Grassmere riot cases, said he was often surprised that free laborers did not arm themselves to resist outrages. Without encouraging the use of firearms, he considered the men justified in using weapons if they had a reasonable idea that their lives were endangered. If the free men organised and armed themselves there would be fewer cowardly outrages perpatrated. The prisoners wcao convicted and deferred for sentence.