Second Edition. “LATEST CABLEGRAMS"

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 560, 22 October 1897, Page 2

Second Edition. “LATEST CABLEGRAMS"

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT. Per Press Association. Received This Day at 9.55 a.m. The Australian Flagship. London, October 21. Cbas D. Dickens has been appointed captain and Richard P. Fitzgerald commander of the warship Royal Arthur, recently commissioned to replace the Orlando on the Australian station. Australian Brandy. London, October 19. The London County Council lias decided to give Australian brandy three months’ trial in the asylums under its jurisdiction. Received October 22 at 9.45 a.m. Canadian • Australian Steamer Service. New Yore. October 21. It is stated here that Sir W. C. Von Home, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, has promised the Canadian Board of Trade to start the first line of steamers between Vancouver and Australia as soon as the projected fast Atlantic service between Canada and England has commenced.

South African Railways. Capetown, October 21. Railway communication has been established with Buluwayo. in Matabeleland, and the first train has arrived in town. France and the Dingley Tariff. Pakis, October 21. M. Bouchere. French Minister of Commerce, has complained that the Dingely tariff is proving injurious to France in limiting the value of personal property allowed to be addmitted into America free of duty to 100 dollars.

Massacre in Madagascar. Paris, October 21.

News from Madagascar stales that three French officers and several privates have been massacred at Thinbituna by Sakalaras tribesmen* Received October 22 at noon. Cyclone. London, October 21. News lias been received that a cyclone has devastated the Island of Leyte, one of the Pliillipine Group, causing immense loss of life and property. The Typhoid Epidemic. London, October 21. The typhoid patients at Maidstone number 1700; over 100 deaths are reported since the outbreak. Sporting. London. October 21. At the Nottingham October meeting Gollan's Norton won the Plodders* Steeplechase. Swimming. London, October 21. Ernest Cavill has swum a quart-r of a mile in 30 seconds faster that in the recent match against Kuttali. and on the strength of this performance expects to beat McCusker, the American champion, in a senes of matches arranged between them, the first of which eventuates on the 26th October.