CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7794, 5 December 1896, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

mX • INTERESTING AUSTRALIAN ||.;/ BUDGET. W-r BRITISH AND FOREIGN. %', Adelaide, Deo. 4. S- ,In tho Legislative Assembly the (jrovernjgv.'Jnent proposal to allow a drawback on p:j- exported flour and to extend the duty fe paid on imported wheat was defeated. $i. ; : .■• . Peuth, Dec. 4. §£■.< .- A Kanaka tan amuck at Fretnantle to»g- day armed with an axe. He split open |f the head of a wharf laborer named Grif-i-i'_ , fiths, killing him instantly. He com- ■ r r pletely severed the shoulder blade of £.' another man named Henderson, and made > » fierce attack on Constable E. Buter. ' . Eventually further assiatauce was obtained ■.'. and the mnrderer was overpowered and ' taken into custody. Sydney, Dec. 4. The London mission vessel Hanauioa „ . was totally wrecked in a gale at New Guinea. The crew were saved. •-. ;. Advices have been received that tho ... War Office is prepared to grant LSOO ";■ towards the expense of sending a Now .>, j South. Wales team of mounted rifles to ■••-- compete at the military tournament in ■,-i England. v , Melbourne, Dec. 4. • ' The racehorse Merman has been shipped „■ 'to .England by the Aberdeen. '" r ■' • ' Parsons and Marten, the cyclists, have •\ '• been matched to ride five and ten miles '-'■„.' on the 19th mat. Ken Lewis intends to - V. challenge the winner of the mile 5-event. '.-)■- The revenue for the five months ended October 30th, allowing for repeated primage duties, has increased by over L 40,000 compared with a similar period last year. The Legislative Council has decided to insist on its principal amendments to tho Factories Bill, and a deadlock between the two Chambers is threatened. Pakis, Dee. I. The Chamber of Deputies has carried a motion ordering the release of M. Chaufin, Socialist member of the Chamber, 1? ho was arrested at Carnaud on a charge ' of assaulting an opponent with a loaded revolver. ; The Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies propose to reduce the army and navy estimates by twenty - two million francs, and are als opposed to calling out the reserves. London, Dec. ?>. The P, and 0. Company s report shows that the profits for the year amounted to L 180,952. A aum of L 6,052 is be carried forward. The passenger revenue was the ; highest ever realised, the outward business being especially buoyant. The Standard says the Emperor and Empress of Germany, accompauied by their two eldest sons, tvilJ attend the celebration to be held next year iv honor of the Queen's record reign. A conference of representatives of dissenting churches carried a resolution demanding the uußeotarian control of teaching in' all the State aided schools. As a result of the enquiry into the public works department by tho committee of the London County Council four officers have beeu dismissed. A modiis vivendi has been arrived uC bo- ;' tween the London and Indian Dock companies' joint committee and the P. and O. Company in regard to dock charges. The project of the P. and O. Company for building its own wharves on the Thames ' is therefore shelved. In his evidence before the Pacific Cable ■ . Commission the Hon. W. I. Reaves supported the route suggested by the Sydney Convention. Sir Thomas Playford's evidence was on the same Hues as expressed by him before the Ottawa Conference.- He flrged the claims of South Australia.. ' . The Times announces that the decision ■ ' , of the Appeal Court at- Alexandria will not affect the advance of the Soudan expedition. Dr. Jameson was released from Ilullo■way prison yesterday, and was driven to a private sanatorium. The prospectus of the Kapai Kermont Mining Company is being issued. There are 110,000 shares. Obituary : Bishop Tufnell. In the course of a speech before the British Empire League, tho Duke of Devonshire said the Government attached the highest importance to the renewal of the naval agreement with Australia as being a step towards a general Imperial defence. He hoped a couference would be held in London shortly to discuss the whole question, when the coloniea should not hesitate to undertake the very moderate share allotted them. Cairo, Dec. 2. The Appeal Conit condemned tho action of the Government in using the Oaisse de la Dette reserve funds for the expenses of the Soudan expedition. BRUSSELS, Dec. 2. « The mayor and aldermen of Brusse have resigned owing to the Council havinS Adopted the minimum wage of thro e franca. Home, Dec. 3. News from Zanzibar states the Somalia i, killed Signor Ceechi, the Italian Consul, and wounded the captains of two Italian warships and bix other officers. Calcutta, Dec. J. The plague in Bombay is increasing. Berlin, Dec. 3. Two pressmen are being tried in a Berlin Court on a charge of libelling Count Earlenberg, Cordon Marshall, Uerr Biebersten, Minister of Foreign Affairs, ' and Prince Hohenlohe, the Chancellor. The libel waa contained in an urticie on the Czar's speech at his reception at Breslau, which alleged that Count Earlenberg, acting in the interests of England, had pat forward a false version of the Czar's speech. St, Johns, Dec. 'J. Tho Newfoundland Govornmenc have taken over the control of the railways in the Island. They havo hitherto been in private hands. ZAHziiiAU, Dec. 3. In the engagement between the Italians and Somalia, in which the Italian Consul Ceechi was killed, the former made a heroic defence, and loat fourteen o£ their men and the Somalia eighteen.