CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1761, 21 August 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

EUCHENG MASSACRES London, August 17. Replying to a q uestion in the House, Mr Curzon said the question of compensating the families with respect to the Kucheng massacre could not be determed until, the murderers and others implicated had been punished.

OUTRAGE BY KANAKAS

Brbsbane, August 17. A public meeting at Mackay called on the Government, in consequence of the many outrages committed by Kabakas, to take steps to prevent them carrying fire-arms, and being abroad after ten at night.

THE JUDGESHIP.

SIR P. BUCKLEY ACCEPTS Wellington, Monday. It is now understood that Sir Patrick has accepted the vacant Judgeship, though the announcement has not yet been offically made. There are supposed to be certain difficulties arising out of Cabinet re-construction that will delay the formal appointment for some days.

THE IRISH PARTIES

London, August 17.

After eight hours’ noisy discussion, the McCarthyites conceded to Healy’s party three votes in the Consultative Committee.

DAMAGED TEA

Sydney, August 17. Fifteen hundred cases of tea for Sydney aboard the Orient, spoiled with water, were condemned. It is believed that many cases for Melbourne and New Zealand, still undischarged, are in the same condition.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON A RACE-COURSE

Melbourne, August 17. At the Victorian Club’s races at Caulfield to-day Circassian fell and his jockey, C. Lewis, a prominent country hbrseman,. was killed. ’ '

TERRIBLE OUTRAGE

A MAN SHOOTS HIS BROTHER THE CAUSE OF JEALOUSY Sydney, August 19 A man named Green shot his brother and the latter’s wife near Coonamble. j , The woman is dead, and the man is dyiug. Tiia.murderer escaped into tke-Jmoli, - and he has probably committed suicide, as a shot was heard from the direction in which he went. . The cause of the outrage is said to, be jealousy.