NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 151, 13 December 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

DEATH OF ME G. A. SALA. London, December 10. Mr G. A. Sala, the well known journalist, died to-day, aged 67.

George Augustus Sala, one of the most famous journalists of the century, was born in London in 1828. His father was an Italian, and his mother, a popular singer, was of West Indian origin. Mr Sala—who was destined for art, but forsook it for literature —began his literary career in Household Words under the auspices of the late Charles Dickens. He was one of the founders of Temple Bar magazine, of which he was for some time editor. Mr Sala was the •‘G.A.S.” of the widely-read “ Echoes of the Week ” in the Illustrated London News, For many years he was a leader writer and special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, which journal he represented at most of the celebrations of historical importance that have taken place in England, Europe, and America during the last 83 years. A description of his visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1885 was published in the Telegraph, and in several colonial journals, under the title of “ The Land of the Golden Fleece.” In May, 1892, the first number of Sabi’s Journal appeared, a 21 -paged weekly magazine sold at one penny. This venture cost Mr Sala a lot of money, but proved unsuccessful. Of late years he suffered much in health, and the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph awarded him a pension of £IOOO a year for life. THE TURKISH QUESTION. Constantinople, December 10. The Turkish troops surrounded the British gunboat in the harbor, baring that Said • Pasha would escape aboard her. Sir Phil ip Currie, the British Ambassador, protested, however, and they were withdrawn. The Turks charge the Amonians will outrages in Anatolia, also with poisoning wells. London December 10. Mr T. Chamberlain (Conservative), one of the members for Southampton, Ins been unseated because bis agent paid a voter a florin for a railway fare. Sydney, December 11. A sensational accident occurred in the Harbor to-day. The warship Ringaiooma was engaged in torpedo practice, when an unfilled torpedo fired struck and pierced a boat eontaiugsix of her crew, who were assisting at practice. The occupants of the boat were thrown into the water, but were rescued without injury.