CABLE NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 194, 11 December 1896, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(I'n / Y.-.V.- "»i>:iri<i!il.) Pec. '■). At the wool Silica to-day bidding was spirited. but rather irregular. !t is apparently true that ?>!-iceo. one of itu' rebel ('ub:!n lenders, was killed in the recent lighting near Havannah. The Madrid newspapers are indignant at President Cleveland's veiled threat 1 to intervene in Cuba. ; Marshal lilanco. (lovcrnor of the | Phillipines, has resigned, i Sydney, Dee. 10. The return of the Australian eleven has brought with it a renewal of warfare with the Council. Mr Musgrove .states that the result of the test match in Sydney produced 11)00, but the bal-ance-sheet shows that he was paid £11*25 17s Id, ami in addition received a loan of i'HOO. A stipulation was made that the latter amount should lw re-paid out of rtie first takings in Kngland. but the money was not forthcoming till October, and after hostile communications had paused between the manager and the Council. The quarter-mile Amateur Swimming Championship was won by Percy Cavill. beating -i. Settings by three yards after a splendid linish ; time, tlnun :! ;J—ii sec. tlie Australian record. At the wool sales prices, especially for inferior sorts, were Weaker. Sconreds declined }d to 1 Ad. itNK, Dec. 10. An engineer named Ilannan was the victim of a shocking outrage at Richmond. Tie was drinking with a woman named I.ell, and quarrelled over some money she .nave him. Ilannan went to sleep, and was awakened by finding himself enveloped in ilames, his clothes having been drenched with kerosene, ami he was frightfully burned about the neck and face, his beard and hair being singed oil" to tin- roots. Bell was arrested. P.ills have been introduced to reduce the number of members in the Assemblv to NO. and in the Council to ■4O, the boundaries of the constituencies to be re-arranged by a. commission absolutely independent of Parliament, ! and paid for its services. The intro- ; ductiou of these measures was received I by a number of members with derisive laughter. A bill has been drafted dealing with the reduction of salaries of civil servants. It provides that, tlie reductions in salaries of over L'2oo shall not continue after -lime, ls<)<), oyer .t'l.lo not after .June, lulls, and below tl-"»0 the old rates of pay shall be restored after next -lune. 11<h;U;t, DeC. JO. The Treasurer states that the surplus for the pre-ent year will be ±•(>0,000, and next year £70.000.