LAST NIGHTS CABLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3003, 29 January 1901, Page 2

LAST NIGHTS CABLE.

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United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 12.38 a.m., January 29th. HURRICANE AT NOUMEA. NOUMEA, January 28. The' worst hurricane for many years passed over the Islands on the 22nd and 23rd. Croat damage was done at Tchio, Canala, mid on the Kouaou Nickel Comproperties. The old steamer Hero and the barque Emilie Gallina is ashore at Tchio. The ship Yille Due Havre was stranded at Horo.

Received 1.50 a.m., January 29th. | THE FRENCH IN THE NEW i •HEBRIDES. i LONDON, January 24. Sir Andrew Clark, Agent-General for Vic- j toria, is urging the Colonial Office to represent to the French Government the un- i fairness of land acquisition and trading by ; the French at the New Hebrides. I RAIN-PRODUCING SCHEME. | Lord Clevin and Professor Boys consider ■ Commander Worcester’s liquid-air rainproducing scheme impracticable. Worcester still perseveres in his ideas. SENTENCE ON A FRENCH SOLDIER. A French soldier has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for drawing his bayonet on an Australian who was doing police duty in Tientsin. Brawls are of frequent occurrence. Received 2.6 a.m. , January 29th. GREAT FIRE IN MONTREAL. A Reuter’s despatch announces that the

wholesale business quarter of Montreal has been destroyed by fire, including the Board of Trade buildings. The damage is 5,000,000 dollars.