CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1740, 18 May 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

’ Sydney. May 15. . Before the Dean .Commission Mr Pi'cher. who ia appearing for the defence, announced that the theory he intonded to set up was that Mrs. Dean had been an arsenic .eater for years. This he would prove beyond, doubt. Evidence had also been received regarding the antecedents of Mrs Seymou”, Mrs Dean’s mother, an imporfca at witness for theprosecufcion. Counsel for the Crown admitted she had been sentenced for being concerned in a robbery at Melbourne. , Adelaide, ‘May-15. , • Messrs Black and Palmer, the Now Zealand porno l ogists, are visiting ~ho fruit-growing districts of South Australia. They will endeavour to obtain as many samples of diied fruit as possible and exhibit 'them in New Zealand. • y ; Brisbane, May 15. Consequent on the of pie pro - pneumonia on -the steamer Perthshire the Government, of .New Zealand advise the Queensland' Government that vessels from Queensland with cattle on board will be prohibited from calling at Zealand. An important discovery of coal has been made at Gawr’e, in the Toowoomba district. A seam of good coal three and a-half feet thick has been struck forty feet from the surface, and traced for two mile 3.

PRODUCE FREIGHTS

Melbourne, May 16 Under an agreement made by the Agricultural Department, frozen men fc shipped to London by the Blue Anchor and Aberdeen Shipping Companies will he ‘carried at three farthings per pound uo to September, and thence to the end of May for seven-eights of a penny. For rabbits, poultry, and similar produce, £3 10s per ton t» September, and £3 12s 6d after that date.

MICHAEL BAVITT

Adelaide, May 16. Mr Michael Davitt delivered his first lecture in the Town Hall last night, and received an enthusiastic reception

from a crowded audience.

INTERCOLONIAL RECIPROCITY

Adelaide, May 16 Sir Gh M O’Eorke is strongly of opinion that the treaty between South Australia and New Zealandrwill be ratified by the New Zealand Parliament.

THE PLAGUE

. } Brisbane, May 16 Babbits are swarming over the New ( South Wales border, and devastating / the country. »