AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1962, 29 October 1889, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Oct. 25. Arrived Tekapo, from Wellington, The rifle championship'of New South Wales was won by Private Kennedy. Oct. 26. Arrived Argus, s.s., from Timsru, Melbourne, Got. 25. During a torchlight procession at Malyern last night The box fireman’s clothes caught fire. Ha was carrying a quantity of compound colored fires which ignited and burned fiercely. The poor fellow was horribly burned before death pot an end to bis sufferings. Arrived P. and O. Company’s Arcadia from Plymouth. New Zealand passengers, Mrs Grondona, Misses Chapman and Dine, Messrs Mythria, Landswas, Story, Ansenne, Duthie, Smith, Condey, Eagles, and Bartlett, The idea of forming a party of members of Parliament to charter a si earner to visit the'eities of New Zealand during the Exhibition has brien abandoned, owing to the division of opinion on (he

‘propriety inviting ladies to take pari 1 iaTbe* excursion l . 1 '‘ : Got. 27. 1 'The New * Zealand ‘ Government have j itfgreed ‘ tjd sl j6iH° tile intercolonial penny! 'postal* card ! system,‘comm'e'riblng on the! T , Bt'' , NbYemberv' i : i l '' ■ " ■ 1 ■ . 7 ’"l'Brisbane; Oct. 25. 1 The'Qtieeritiland 1 Legislative Assembly ditih 'sat coniihUously fbr 24 houhs stoneWrilitigTlib Id&n for'railway' purposes. 1 j '/!;> V■/ 1 v Oot. 27. ’ a y l' carriage' factory all ‘Naridkb'ha* b’efe'n.deStroyed'by fire, arid; ii'iriWtlraa't'ed thSk 1! thb‘'damage 'is fully-' £SOOO. ! ' r7 " !; | ' ' J ‘ Perth, Oct. 26.; i 'Parliament 1 was , Operihd yesterday.. The 5 speech from the throne declared! that it was"imperatively ‘necessary'Toj 'study' rivery : 1 possible and 1 reasonable; mSkri’s of conciliating the strong bp-! pdsifibri 1 in; tlie House 1 of Comoions to' the Constitution Bill. It mentions thatj a' request has 1 been received ' from Lord ’Kmlitkfbrd' that a delegation should proceed' to 'Loricltm to further the inTbrebts v cf 'the Bil.l; Reference ‘is made; to the'pyokperity Of tbe cblbny, and the, : Treasurer. t|i,^ surplus for; thb year 1 ‘Will reach £14,000.