CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6001, 5 January 1891, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

> Copyright— Per United Press Association. LONDON, r January 2. A terrible accident happened at a j church bazaar at Leeds. The cottonL wool dresses of fourteen children, who - were assisting at tha stalls, caught | fire, and before the flames could be extinguished the children were severely : burnt, and five have already sao- - oumbed to their injuries. | SIDNEY, j January 3, 3 The second sculling race over 3 the Championship course between ' Stephenßon and Hatch resulted, as 3 did the first one, in a victory for } the champion of New Ze4*nd, who l finished in the fast time of 19mins 3 58£*ee<3. I A Company is being floated in i London to export frozen meat from b the Northern District, with Newcastle as the port of shipment. • BRISBANE, a January 3. An epidemic of scarier, fever is raging in the city. Nino cases of sunstroke have 00- -... onrred at I'ookbampton since Tuesday and in four instances the attack proved L f*tal. During the la^t few days the r temperature has been ranging from ' 103 to 105 in the shade. MELBOURNE, January 3. The Premier has received information from Lord Kuutsford, Secretary of State for tbe Colonies, respecting the [ French Commission to New Caledonia. The Commission will deal only with tbe naval and civil administration, I having no reference whatever to any change of system or policy, or any ' special scheme for the development of ! French interests in the Archipelago \ The sensation caused by the appoint I menfc of the Commission is attributable • to the exaggerations and misstatemente [ of the press, as, according to French official information, only twenty-five i and not sixty convicts escaped from • New Caledonia, and of these 20 were | re-oaptured. ', NEWCASTLE, ' January 3. The city has been lighted by electricity, the installation being the third , largest in tbe world. ADELAIDE, January 3. The total revenue for the Colony for the past year amounts to £763,000 \ as against £680,000 for 1889. Tbe increase is largely due to the silver 1 boom. The amount of revenue esti- ' mated by the Colonial Treasurer as ' likely to be received has been realised.