NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 December 1894, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREION

Zanzibar, Novembei' 28.

The Wazires are gathering in large numbers, and it is expected that further fighting will shortly take place with the Germans.

London, November 30,

The annual balance-sheet of the P. and O. Company shows a net surplus of £182,000, of which it has been decided to carry forward a sum of £BOOO. The report states that the earnings from the passenger traffic with Australia have considerably decreased.

Brisbane, December 1. In the Assembly to-day, Mr Nelson said the Government considered that the issue had not been fairly put yesterday, and in order to test the feeling of the House he moved to go into Supply. The debate was treated as one of want of confidence, and a division resulted in favour of the Government by 81 to 30. Business was then proceeded with. Mr J. Willai’d, ex-M.L.A., of New South Wales, has been acquitted on a charge of the larceny of certain documents from the Brisbane Post Office. Melbourne, December 1. The man Tough, who killed his partner with a tomahawk in Bendela Street, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years. Sydney, December 1. It is understood that Judge Foster has resigned, and that he will he succeeded by Mr Simpson, AttorneyGeneral, Mr Want taking the latter position. The Hon. W. P. Reeves interviewed a number of officers of the Trades and Labor Council, and had a lengthy conversation with them on trade matters. He left for Melbourne to-dav.

Adelaide, November 80. The first trial shipment of live sheep was despatched to London to-day.