CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1768, 7 September 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

DIRECT TRADE WITH MANCHESTER Melbourne, September 5. MivHptson, interviewed regarding his yißitft(>Kagland to open direct with Maiichester) said that the ', London miildle-ihoti have for years conducted a system of financing the Australian importers of Manchester goods, which will enable them .to keep control of that trade until such times’ as similar terms-can be devised rin’ Manchester. Reciprocity in the way of direct return cargoes is therefore at first to he precluded, to a considerable extent, but a f-troug.local feeling is in f ▼ -ur of establishing tho system. Manchester compares very favourably with London as a distributing centre, and would serve from six to eight millions of people, mostly earning good wages. In all Quarters the people concurred as to tlte splendid possibility of fostering a direct trade with Australia, especially in meat and wool. VIOLENT STORM MANY HOUSES UNROOFED Sydney, September 4. The greatest storm on record in the Gambula district was experienced yesterday. The residents, fearing their houses would be demolished, fled to i the field. Nearly all the houses wore unroofed, and numerous chimneys were bioWn|<ifowii. Verandahs were torn away bodily, and many of the structures in the town, which were none two substantial, came down. THE SYDNEY TRAGEDY

Sydney, September 4. It is now stated that the abdominal operation on Miss Nicholls was per--1 formed while the unfortunate girl was in a state of collapse, and was rendered necessary by the unskilful way in which the first illegal operation was made-. The operation, it is said, was most / cruelly and barbarously performed. A person styling himself on American student assisted at it, and ho has fled to Newcastle, where the police have lost trace of him. It is believed the body of the child was burnt. Later. The body of an immature child has been found in the harbour. It is supposed to bo the missing link in the tragedy, RAILWAY ACCIDENT HFTY persons injured New York, September 3 A runaway engine collided with an excursion train on the Sea Beach line, near New York, and fifty passengers were seriously injured. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND PROTEST AGAINST THE CALL London, September 3. The shareholders’ committee of the Bank of New Zealand has convened a. meeting of shareholders for September 16th to protest against the call. They demanded that the Bank shall go into liquidation, and denounce Mr Ward’s statements made in Lundun*