CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

London, September 30. A verdict of "wilful murder" has been returned against a police inspector and a constable, charged with shooting a boy during a sale held on a Tipperary farm from which tenants have been evicted. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of both of the accused.

Amsterdam, September 30. The dockmen on strike at Rotterdam have been paid at the rate of fourpence an hour, and now demand fivepence. English dockers have been imported by employers of labour to take the place of the striker^.

London, September 30. The cotton strike so far is not general. Opeiatives are endeavouring to coerce non-Union masters into conceding their demands. Burns, the dock strike champion, irtends to contest Battersea at the next election.

Stdney, October 1. Bishop Smith states that his ordination as Primate of Australia has' been deferred until the Archbishop of Canterbury learns of what the alleged irregularity in connection with his appointment consists. The police have received a cablegram stating that a mysterious passenger who arrived by the Mariposa is wanted at San Francisco for embezzlement. Melbourne, October 1. A man named John Stephens, who has been arrested by the police, is believed to be the actual murderer of a Chinaman, whose mysterious death caused some sensation in November last. London, September 30. The death of General Faidherb is reported. London, October 1. Mrs Todd, of Sydney, in a letter written to the " Standard," denounces the incapacity and insolence of colonial servants, and appeals to the ladies of England to organise a society for the purpose of sending out respectable domestics, colonial ladies guaranteeing situations and passages. Sydnky, September 30. An armed bushranger stuck up a number of persons near Dubbo, and three were bound and robbed. A cabman, who had been stuck up, procured a revolver and pursued the ruffian. While lying in wait the police came up, and in the dark the cabman being mistaken for the bushranger, SubInspector Cameron shot him in the shoulder. The wound is believed to be serious. The bushranger is still at large. With regard to the reported changes in the moon, Mr H. C. Russell, 8.A., astronomer at the Port Phillip observatory, sajs two mountains have disappeared, and two conspicuous craters have taken their place, one of which is a mile and three-quarters in diameter, and the other somewhat larger. Two smaller craters are also visible. The large crater is surrounded by a white wall, apparently freshly thrown up.