CABLE TELEGRAMS.
LATER NEWS FROM ENGLAND.
RACING— THE OAKS.
THE LATE SULTAN OF TURKEY
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
[special to the "iiekald."]
Sydney, July 11. — The news per ' Whampoa' is of little importance. Small-pox broke out in four of the ships of the Flying Squadron, which recently left Bombay for China. A plot has been discovered to sink the ironclad training-ship ' Caledonia.' A Constantinople telegram states that 118 Tillages containing 100,000 inhabitants in Bulgaria have been laid in ruins. The 8.8. 'Normanby,' via Torres Straits, arrived at Cooktown on the 11 th (yesterday), and brings the following additional items of English news to the 11th June : — LONDON, June 2.— The Epsom Races.— The followiug are the winners of the Oaks : — Camelia > , , . Eaquen-anda { Dead heat Grand Duchess 3 June G. — Abdul Azziz, the late Sultan of Turkey, has committed suicide by opening a vein with scissors. June 11. — A peaceful statement in connec^ln with Eastern affairs has been made by<Mr. Disraeli. The Berlin memorandum has been withdrawn. The Porte has consented to an armistice with the insurgents. There is no news of a hostile nature, and matters are apparently peaceful.
" He Fokgot to Settle his Little Ac- ! count." — There was another presentation made the other day. I wish expressly to state that there was nothing singular about this, because in all the Province of Canterbury there scarcely breathes n roan with a soul so dead who can with truth even to himself have said, "I never had a presentation." This case, however, refers to ft reverend gentleman who received a purse of sovereigns from a crowd of devoted parishioners. He was indebted triflingly to a few of the subscribers, and naturally they were a bit free with their donations. They may have expected to get their little accountssquared. So they did. They were paid by cheques, and when thny preßented them the funds were wanting. It would appear that the recipient had never paid in the purse of fovb to his account. He is now on the heaving billow, bound to foreign climes, qnd still clings to his purse as a sweet souvenir of New Zealand. — The " Loafer" in the Prexx. A SHIKOLB-SPIi'ITTINtt MACHINE. —A novel machine says the Mangawni correspondent of tho Auckland Herald, has just been introduced into this district which will supply a great want. I nliude to a machine for splitting shingles. It works very well up to the present time, and if the billets are straight in the grain, and free from knots, the machine is supposed to split on an average ten thousand per day. The inventor has patented hi» invention for fourteen years. The motive power is by a heavy fly-wheel turned by hand, which drives the splittor or chisel horizontally. The billet is fixed by hand, and tho chisel catching one end splits off a shingle which drops through to the grouud. It then slides back under the billet, nnd wheu passed the billet is in position for another shingle. It takes two mon nnd a boy to attend to it. One turns tbo wheel which is rather hard work, and one feeds with billets, and the boy takes away the shingle*; but if one is constantly tying up, of couree the work would be carried on more completely and ecouomicully, as the persons taking away the shingles can count and pack them for the tier up. I have not' heurd the price of this very valuable invention, but if it is within the reach of many, there will be a reudy hulo for it, 1
CABLE TELEGRAMS.
Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2427, 12 July 1876, Page 3
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