CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2001, 6 December 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

TERRIBLE DISASTER AT SEA. TWELVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST. Lonuom, December 2. The Irish Executive hae issued a proclamation prohibiting the summoning of meet* mgs called with a view to the iotimidation of tenants to refuse to pay rents.

Tbe Times, in a loading article today on the state of Ireland, urges continued firmness on the pin of tbe Government in tbe enforcement of respect for the law. and believes that by such firmness the struggle now proceeding will be shortened.

The French troopship Cbandemagor foundered in a cyclone, and 1200 lives were lost. Tbe Russian and Turkish Governments are acting in concert with the other Great Powers in endeavoring to bring about a settlement of the Bulgarian question A serious fire broke out in Knightriderstreet, in the city, last night, and completely destroyed a block of warehouses as well aa the interior of St Mary Magdalene's Chnreh. The loss caused by tbe conflagration is estis mated at £IOO,OOO. A large number of Arab couviots have embarked at Toulon for conveyance to Now Caledonia.

At the colonial wool auctions to-day 10,700 bales were offered. The market is irregular. Australian greasy crossbred is fd lower than at the close of last sales.

Melbocbmk, December 3,

The Legislative Assembly has passed a Bill providing ior the preliminary expenses of the Exhibition to be held in 1888, which will be in celebration of the Australian een* tenary. The proposal meets with the approval of the general public, bat the decision of the Chambers of Commerce and Mann* faotnres is awaited.

The Lancet explains in a recent number a new treatment for consumption, as injecting oarbolised iodine into the lungs by means of spray of the warmed fluid. The deceased cavities of the lungs are first localised by percussion ; then a fine tubular needle, having openings at the point and attachment to a proper syringe, is introduced between the ribs, and the well known antiseptic qualities of combination are relied upon to effect the healing of the affected parte. It is nsed ones a week. So far, the treatment la quite satisfactory.

Sir G. Whitmore, addressing the South Canterbury volunteers at Timaru the other day. somewhat severely commented on the extremely low average of the shooting of volunteers throughout the colony, and expressed a hope that aome alteration would be made soon.

Visitor, in penitentiary ; “ What brought you to this place, my friend ?" Convict : Sneezing,” Visitor :•' Sneezing Con' viot: “ Tie, w ; it woke the gentleman np> and he nabbed me. Have ye got a bit o' tobacky about ye, sor ?" The snail harvest has recently begun in France. The "poor man’a oyster” is so appreciated in France that Pans alone consumes some 411 tons daily, the best coming from Grenoble or Bnrgrundy. The finest specimens are carefully reared in a eseargotin or snail park, such as the poor Capuchin monks planned in by-gone days at Clomar and Meiubach, when they had no money to bay food, aud so cultivated snails. Bat the majority are collected by the vinedressers in the evening from the stone heaps where the snails have assembled to enjey the dew. A correspondent of a contemporary points out that the undergraduate course of Miss Annie Forbes is unique iu the annals of the Otago University, and, for a lady, is without a parallel. Going to the University as dux w the Girls’ High School in 1883, she gained the first junior scholarship of the Mew Zealand University for that year, and her col* lege course of nine classes show six firsUolass certificates and throe seconds. Six times she bad been dnx of bur class, and aa many times she has received prizes.

The latest craze in America is pet alliga* tors. They are taken when mere babie 1 from their native swamps in the South, and fetch from Ito 2 dole, in New York. Accord* ing to the New York World, a young lady in Lexington Avenue has a fourteen-inch sl.iga* tor, with a silver collar round its throat and a chain attached, who follows bet like a pet dog.

A citizen, once one of the best known men in Melbourne, figured before tbe City Court on a serious charge, liis presence in that position caused some sensation and surprise among the spectators. The person Moused was John Kerr, who, some years ego, carried ou a large business in butchering. At (bet time bis name wee e honsebo'd word in that trade, and was “ good enough ” lot almost any sum. The charge now preferred against him was (bet of feloniously forging and uttering a bill for exchange for the sum of £4O, end tbs forgery was alleged to here keen made with tue View of utilising the eredit of e business firm in the eity, that of Mr (Hies, draper, of Bourka Street. Mr Daly, solicitor, who had received harried iaetraetions, appeared tor him, end asked lor a remand lot n weak, which was granted, bail being allowed in £lO.