NEWS BY CABLE.
HOME AND FOREIGN. London, July 2. Lords Houghton and Carrington have been created earls, and Sir Henry Loch, Mr Herbert Coulston Gardner, Mr Sydney Sic-rn, and Mr James Williamson (all M.P.'s), baronets; William Aguew, baronet; Campbell Bannerman, Grand cross of the Order of Bath ; Mr Robert Gift'en, L.L.D., Commander of Bath; and Arthur Arnold, formerly M.P., has been knighted.
Sydney, July 2. The ship Argus, from London, reports that during the heavy gale on May 27, Kelly, the third officer, was washed overboard. The chief officer, who was a cousin of Kelly's, with McFiudlay, McDonald, and Robertson, seamen, and Lindsay, steward, gallantly volunteered to lanuch a boat to rescue Kelly. They managed to pick up the officer, and almost reached the ship on the return, when a tremendous sea swamped the boat, and all the crew were drowned.
The young man Buck, who murdered the womau Norton because she refused to return and live with him, was executed to-day. Death was instantaneous.
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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 5 July 1895, Page 2
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