AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1836, 3 January 1889, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, December 31. Bartholomew, the American aeronaut, who has been giving exhibitions of descents from balloons, met with a severe accident on Saturday. Ho descended with a parachute at Ballarat, hut coming down much faster than usual struck a house and badly lacerated both his legs, besides injuring the bone cf one. An attendant at Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, named Hunter, was found dead yesterday with bis head battered in and six stabs oh various parts of the body. He is supposed to'have been murdered by one of the patients. A woman named George,ton was kicked to death in the Chinese quarters of the town this morning by a man, name unknown, who has since been arrested. Sydney, January 1. Four inches of rain have fallen in the southern district, and the price, of stock has risen, while that of produce has fallen. Newcastle, December 81. Sailed—Pukaki for Wellington. Adelaide, January 1.

A coach conveying a picnic party full oyer a precipice to-day, and a , man named Browning was killed, and twenty-five others were injured, three of them seriously! Thursday. Island, Dec. 31, News has. been received, here that Mr W, McGregor, Special Commissioner to New Guinea, has captured some of the natives concerned in the murder of Captain Ansteil, of the schooner Star of Peace, who was killed in November at Bailer Bay, A desperate resistance was offered by the friends of the captured men.

AFRICAN TROUBLES,

London. December 31. News has been received of a revolution in the native kingdom of Uganda, on the north-west shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza, the king haying been deposed by his brother. It is believed this will afford Emin Bey an opportunity of escaping, as the new monarch is known to be friendly to him. January 1. It is rumored that Emin Bey has readied Victoria Nyanza, the deposition of Mwanga, King of Uganda, having opened that tine of retreat. Emin is supposed to be awaiting Stanley on the shores of the lake. Suakim. December 30. Several Arab sheiks have offered to allow the Soudan to be opened up to trade peaceably if the Dervishes and Osman Digna are expelled. December 31. Convicts are being employed on the fortifications outside this town. January 1. A Greek who has reached this town from the Upper Nile reports that when be left Khartoum the Mahdi intended to abandon the attempt to conquer the equatorial provinces of Africa. The Greek, who left Khartoum two months ago, states that nothing had been heard of the alleged capture of Emin Bev bv the Mahdi’s torces.

AN EXTRAORDINARY BLUNDER.

Miixrco. December 30. Instigated by (he priests, (hough for what cause is at present unknown, the populace of this city rose against the Government, .and on Thursday an immense mob aided by the garrison of the three barracks attacked the palace of the Presidents General Perfino Diaz. A bloody conflict ensued iu which the Government forces were eventually victorious, though three generals were killed. Two thousand of the insurgents were captured and seventy-two of the priests who were encouraging the assailants were killed. Two hundred more priests have since been arrested and ordered to be shot. Among those ordered for execution is an archbishop. Londok, December 31. It is now stated that the account o{ the riot and massacre at Mexico, previously cabled, is a hoax. It originated through papers in the city of Mexico publishing a detailed accout of a revolution as a possible result if the anticlerical policy of Government were per. sisted in. Correspondents of European journals accepted the story as fact, and wired it without .taking (he precaution of ascertaining whether it was authentic.