CABLEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8618, 23 December 1896, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS

Press Association). . ;'" December 21. |^|^^qf?;Davidsoa; ! ha? declined to faccopVthe position of Moderator of the * T ,'Free Church of Scotland on tlie ground ",;"• of ill health. /' ' Berlin, December 21. •' The Kaiser has ordered that the '' enquiry into the killing of a civilian - at Brusewitz be ro-oponed. * ■' Madhid, December 21.' 1 ■ s Eight of, the Anarchists charged ' with being concerned in the dynamite outrages, in''.Barcelona have been I sentenced to death, \ ' ' Capetown,' Decembbr 21. . The Premior states that the Kindorf pest has made no advance during tho past two months and he hopes that tho colony will bo saved from its offects. ' Melbouiine, Decomber 22. Parliament will bo prorogued on Thursday. Tho Governor leaves for New Zonlahd shortly aftorwards. Sydney, Decomber 22. ' Sailed: Steamer Admiral, for Wellington. '». 4 Brisbane,' December 22. Tho Attorney-General has given his opinion that property outside Queensland should not pay succession: duty,, oven though tho owner was domicilod here. 1 , A heavy wind storm unroofed, a > large number of houses'at Croydon. Hobakt, December 22. Arrived: Pakoha, from New.Zealand. - ' Storms, accompanied with heavy rain, have been experienced through- , out the colony.< Floods washed away two miles of the railway line to the Southern Cross mine. '