CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1755, 31 July 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, ‘July 27. Messrs Nelson' Bros, in reviewing the year’s butter trade, state that supplies for the provinces are insufficient, though the quality is highly esteemed. The new company, they say, intend to increase the supply and endeavour to secure a lasting foothold in Manehe - and Liverpool, s where direct trade is necs3ary. They recommend shipments to Great Britain throughout the entire.year on a larger scale, and dec 1 are that the average prices will amply compensate for any probable losses in May and June Mur.Bour.NE, July 27, Strenuous effor s ve being made to reach the victims'of the Eldorado accident. Belief drives are nearly completed, The boring rods, however, show that the biudge is still in a danger ms fln : d state, though the p? O3oUt.e is not strong, hut is a possible danger, and if water accumulates, the relief party may requve to flee for their lives at a moment’s warning.

■ Buisbaitß; July 27. Sheaving has been resumed at Bowen Downs. The station kitchen is guarded by police. Berlin, July 26. By an explosion at the Prliu ColKe y, in Bochum, Westphalia, twenty persons were killed and twenty others were entombed. SYDNEY; July 27. Letters from the Bismarck Archipelago give particulars of another horrible massacre at the Islands. The victims were a boat’s crew of natives in the employ of a German trader of Nusa, New Ireland. - Early in April, whilst away with a trader’s boat, the natives were captured by bush tribes and butchered, some of the bodies being taken to the highlands for a cannibalistic feast.

About the same time Capt. Bruce and a native crew of the schooner Suga had a narrow escape. The vessel .was labour-recruiting in New Hanover, and, while the boats were away, the natives came off and made a determined effort to murder those left on board, also to capture the vessel. They actually rushed the captain and men, but fortunately the former managed to secure his “Winchester.’, with which he managed to clear the natives off. otherwise all must have fallen victims. 1

Melbourne July 27 Many cattle are starving in Gippsland in consequence of continued snowfalls. The weather is intensely cold. Foxes have become, a great pest in Port Ferry district. They were do cunning that it was impossible to destroy them, until a method was adopted of shooting birds, and, without touching with the hands, s uff strychnine in their throats and leaving them on the trail of a dead sheep. Large numbers of foxes have since been found dead.