NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 93, 24 May 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

110ME AN©' FOREIGN. London, May 20, For off-coast cargoes of new Victorian -wheat, sellers ask 255. The Daily Chronicle considers that good results will attend the proposed Chambers of Commerce Congress. The Times states that the prospects of the wool sales are fairly promising, despite the recent reaction. It is rumoured that Sir R. B. Baker, C.M,G., President of the South Australian Legislative Council, will' be made K.C.M.G., and Mr G. Hawker, ex-Speaker and ex-Minister of the same colony, Knight Bachelor. Mr Gladstone will visit Kiel on the occasion of the opening of the Baltic Canal. Beerbohm's circular attribtes the firmness of wheat to a belief that the year's crop will be 15,000,000 quarters below last year's. Wilde and Taylor are being tried separately, the latter being taken first. Sir E. Clarke opposed this course, but afterwards asked that Wilde's case be postponed till next session. The Judge, however, said he would wait for the resuit of Taylor's case before deciding. The evidence of Parker and Woods es to the conduct of Wilde in Taylor's room was taken, and remained unshaken.

The Times urges the immediate appointment of a commission of seven with either the Duke of Devonshire or the Hon J. Chamberlain as president, to thoroughly investigate the working of the War Office, and rectify the alleged gross maladministration. Stoddart will manage the next team of English cricketers to visit Australia in 1897.

Owing to the heat at Colombo, Carbine suffered from spasms in the bladder. Mr Day, the Duke of Portland's stud groom, who is accompanying the horse, tapped him, and had a very anxious time, as it was feared the son of Musket would succumb, but he recovered and landed in perfect condition.

Lord Brassey has sold his yacht Dragon to Lord Lonsdale, and will build a yacht in the colony from English designs. He sails in the Sunbeam on June 20th.

1$; Miss Ada Crossby, an Australian singer, made a brilliant debut in the Queen's Hall, and was recalled twice for each song. It is believed that Lord Carrington will be created an Earl, with the title of Earl Wendover.

Orton confesses that at the age of 14 he was apprenticed to the sea, and visited Valparaiso in the brig Oscar, from which he deserted and visited Santiago and San Francisco, returning to England in 1851. He sailed for Hobart" in November, 1852, in ehafge of a number of ponies, consigned to a- Mr Chapman, of Hobart. He worked, for. a butcher named Knight, of Hobart, in 1855, and in the samo year accepted employment under John Johnston, of Newburn Park, Gippsland, Victoria. He remained in the latter situation for twelve months, and then was employed by William Foster, of Boisdale Station. .He was for four years manager of the Dargo Station. He remained for a long period at Eeedy Creek diggings. He also enumerates several other places where he was employed in Victoria and New South Wales. .:.•••»

Shanghai, May 20

Li Hung Chang's son, the Governor of Formosa, bas been instructed by the Chinese Government to hand the island over to the Japanese. Rome, May 20. <

The damage by the earthquake af Florence was much more serious than at first anticipated, and in the villages in the vicinity there is much loss of life. One church collapsed, burying several who were praying. St. Petersburg, May 20. s

Count Kustorag, one of the richest land-owners in Russia, has been shot dead in the public gardens at Minsk by auother nobleman. Sydney, May 20.

Before the Commission set up to consider the Dean case, a man named John Aspriy, aged 70, found living in the bush at Noitfch Shore, said his attention had been called to the case on Saturday last, and he clearly identified Mrs Seymour, mother of Mrs Deane, as his wife. In his evidence he declared that he married her at Hobart, where he, in 1850, had been transported for seven years on a charge of stealing. They kept several publichouses, and lived happily for a time. Then rows, the result of jealousy, ensued, and finally bis wife left liim, taking with her the cash-box, and he had not seen her for the last 20 years. Sometime before she cleared out, he twice suffered severely, and the symptoms were those of arsenic poisoning. Afterwards he discovered that the contents of a bottle of arsenic in the house, which he had bought for the purpose of poisoning rats, had mysteriously disappeared. Sir Henry Parkes is not confident that he will be successful iu ousting the Government at the present time, but predicts the downfall of Reid within six months. If the latter obtained a dissolution, half the present Ministry including Reid, would lose their seats.

At a meeting of Sir Henry Parkes' constituents, it was resolved to ask him to resign, ou the ground that he had betrayed the electors. A public meeting is being called to consider the question. In the Redfern accident, 15 cases have been settled at a total cost of £B6OO. Claims for £ISOO are still pending. Wilson, one of those who was seriously injured, withdrew all his claims, declaring that the accident was unavoidable, and that therefore it was unfair to ask for compensation. Melbourne, May 20. The Government lias'severely cen-' suied Judge Molesworth for his re-

marks respecting the position of •Judges in bankruptcy. Ministers express the views that the course adopted was not the best way to obtain an impartial public opinion. The whole matter conveyed distinct and unmerited aspersions upon Parliament. The Government hope that in future no Judge will, on devoid of foundati -i, avail himself of his position on the 1) neb. to cast discredit on the members of the highest court of the country. - ..-..= Brisbane, May 20.

The two Kanakas sentenced to death for the murder of Whitman at Bundaberg were executed in the Brisbane gaol to-day. In each instance death was instantaneous.