CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6583, 28 December 1899, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

• (By Electric Telegraph— (Copyright ).' j (Per Press AisQolatiQn.) ■ : CASE OF POISONING. A Sydney, December 27. A number of hands at the Momba Coin- ■ pabj's Station, WhiM Cliffe'i a distriot to , th« West of the Dajrlipg—about sixty ■ - 'initevnorth-weut of WUcannia, and 780 ■ mllesfrom Sydney—have' been poisoned. • ! yrife iave It-'-U. supposed < ' ''wafrihtMik. ■ '&^W trittnloSal %athoijtiles^, * : fjfiiit flm rtteeasa exists fn a severe ' form* .-v- A ■ •v. ' There haVe been eight More case? and' - flve cteaths'since yesterday. No deathshav» " r oconrred -amongst the whit©' patients', who are progressing favorably. Thebulldinga in' the Infected looality Are being the place dis- . infected. Business is at a standstill. ' QUEENSLAND -STNANOE. BrisbaNb> December 27. The loan proposals of the Philp Government provide for a total expenditure of ' £2,125,000. Of this sum £820,000 is to be'daVoWd to railway' construction. AUSTRALIAN CRICKET. >, Mblboubp, Pecembsr 27. Oa the intercolonial match being resumed this morning the wicket played badly, and when the New South Wales players' total stood at 520 their last wicket fell. Iredafo made 91 and-Hopkins 44. . « The first innings of the Victorians . ! olosed for 181, td which Worrall coptributed 19 and Graham-39. In the second Innfflgthey have lost no wickets for 85 / ypna* Worrall being not out'with 29. '< J - RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS. ; London, December 27. Reinforcements for the East are being .. hastily despatched bytbe Russian Government from Odessa, in tho Black Sea. ; . "WKEOH OF/A STEAMER. December 26. • '•fi» steamer'Arisbto, "bound from Oal" veston. (»' T«a8 ; port ontha Gulf of Mexico) to, Hainburgj has bpen stranded In. Oorftook6lnlftfc,aii opening in a great 1 barrie* rrti off the Eaat Caast of North . Oarolinh «' . Twenty-one of the crew perished, but the captain todiight others were saved. A ,"breeahes" buoy vfas worked from - the ship .to the shore.