CABLE MESSAGES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2435, 4 October 1876, Page 3

CABLE MESSAGES.

(REUTER'S SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY.)

Sydney, October 3.

The steamer' Bowen' arrived at Cooktown yesterday with 330 Chinese and other passengers. On the voyage beween Penang and Malacca the passengers and officersjof the ship saw a sea serpent about 250 feet long and 50 feet broad, with a square head and yellow stripes.

The' Bowen' brings London dates to August 18 th.

Sir Charles Dilke, addressing his con. atituonts at Wotting Hill, read an important letter from an official, which stated that the accounts of the Bulgarian outrages were not exaggerated.

Memoubne, September 27.

The Government are making good progress with (lie Electoral Bill; all their proposals have been carried, although several amendments have been moved. The Council passed the second reading of the Education Act Amendment Bill,

The lato heavy rains will have a good effect on the crops.

The report on the areas in South Australia are not so unsatisfactory as at first represented.

An opera company, of 16 artistes has been engaged in Italy for .Mr Lazar, of Sydney, and are coming to the colonies. Tho company also inoludos four ballet dancers.

In the Divorce Court cases, Fisher v. Fisher and Winter v. Winter, tho juries found against tho respondent, who was guilty of adultery. In the last-named case the respondent stated sho was residing in Wellington with the corespondent Robert Winter,