NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 212, 15 September 1896, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HURRICANE STRIKES PARIS

Paris, September 12. A hurricane whioh Btruok Paris to-day in a few minutes unroofed the Palace of Justice, a number of theatres, and other structures. Many buildings were blown bodily into the Seine.

Omnibuses were upset in all directions, and fifty people' were killed or injured.

THE TURKISH QUESTION. London, September 11. It is reported that the powers are considerating the advisability of deposing the Sultan.

THE MATABELE WAR. Capetown, September 11. Major Watts ordered Makoni to be shot, fearing that he would escape. Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony, has directed an enquiry be held into the circumstances connected with the affair. September 12. Pending enquiry into the death of the Matabele chief Makoni, Major Watts has been suspended. The Matabele chief Makoni, recently captured, was tried by court-martial, and, being convicted, shot. Many wagons lost by British troops have been recovered in caves from which tne Matabele were driven. It has been discovered that the rebels hanged many white women.

THE FORMOSAN REBELLION. Sydney, September 11. According to the latest advices from Hongkong, the repression of the Formosan rebellion is having a disastrous effect on the island. The flourishing towns of Cbipchip and Hoonin are completely deserted, the people having fled to the Hills for safety. It is estimated that 40,000 Chinese have been driven from their homes, and are camped in the open. Half of them are utterly destitute. Four hundred of the Japanese army attacked a brigand chief's stronghold, but had to retreat with a loss of 200 killed.

London, September 10.

Antwerp wool sales open on 15th inst. There will be offered 114,000 bales, of which sixty will be Australian. Dr Nansen's Artie vessell Fram has arrived at Christiana. The explorer and his crew were accorded a national welcome, and some twelve thousand citizens formen a guard of honor.

At the Trade Union Congress in Edinburgh,. Mr Mallison (president) said the fight of the future would be for a liviug wage, and that the payment fcr labor would be the first charge on production- The social millennium was still at a distance.

Li Hung Chang thinks the Canadian Pacific railway one of the greatest works in the world, which England would find invaluable in the event of war.

Cairo, September 12

Maxwell's brigade is advancing'from Cashel upon Dongola and another brigade is ready to follow. The report that the Khalifa Abdullahi had died at Khartoum is evidently untrue, as it is now stated that he is greatly alarmed at the recent action of Osman Digna, especially in connection with the operations in opposition to the advance of the Egyptian expeditionary force. Melbourne, September 11.

A young man named McPhail, ; who was rather of an eccentric character, ran amuck in South Melbourne to-day, and with a repeating rifle wounded a couple of persons and then shot himself dead.

Berlin, September 9.

Germany and Austria are much disconcerted at the frigid and laconic replies in french by the Czar to the effusive speeches delivered by the Emperor of Germany at the banquet given in honor of the Czar's visit here.

Madrid, September 11.

General Weyler, who has command of the Spanish operations in Cuba, appears powerless to suppress the rebels, who are steadily improving their position. The latter have abundance of arms and ammunition, which it is believed they received from America.

Phillipine Island troops defeated the insurgents and killed 58 of them. Marshall Blanco, Spanish GovernorGeneral there, ordered the execution of several wealthy supporters of the agitation, and exiled 350 others.

Capetown, September 10. Twenty thousand Fahavalo natives are ravaging North Madagascar. Athens, September 10.

The Greek Government is executing (Cashiering) sixteen officers who aided in the Cretan rising.