Second Edition. LATE CABLES.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
(By Electric Tebgraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) Received May U, at 9.40 a.m. ROME, May IJ. The cone of Vesuvius is engulfed in the crater, and the eruption has ceased. SYDNEY, May 14 The Gunnedah rolliery has been closed down, with a view of subduing the fire.
MELBOURNE, May U. Five bodies have been washed ashore from the wreck of the Sierra Nevada, and 600 eases of whisky salvaged. A tragedy occurred at Drouin, where a liotelkeeper named Cohen quanelled with his wife. Tlie latter called her brother (O'Keefe) to her assistance. O'Koefc sliot Cohen dead. The transmission of telegrams to New Zealand has been fixed at 6d per word, without legard to the minimum charge or number of words transmitted, tho Cable Company receiving 3d and the Governments of New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand each Id per word. This arrangement come 9 into operation to-day. ALBANY, May 14. Two natives have been executed at Derby for the murder of Mr Dobbio, a fquatter.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10036, 14 May 1900, Page 3
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