AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2399, 25 August 1892, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Aug. 22. Carl Moeller, of Wellington, who is wanted on a charge of alleged forgery, was arrested on the Tekapo’s arrival. Drastic measures for the suppression of larrikinism have been drafted by the Minister of Justice. News from Sanguir Islands, the scene of the recent terrible eruption, shows that the volcano is quietening down. Hundreds of bodies have been found on the lowlands. A portion of the crater broke away, and a swift torrent of boiling mud rushed down the mountain side. Enormous volumes of smoke are still pouring from the several craters. The islands are now covered with furious boiling wells and springs of mud. Melbourne, Aug. 22, Hemnott won the billard championship of Australia. He made a break of 1238, including 300 successive spot strokes, which is the record for Australia. Hobart, Aug. 22. Mr J. Henry, Colonial Treasurer, declared in the House that unless the colony borrowed half a million the Government would be unable to carry out the public works for which money had already been voted. There would be a deficit, he said, at the end of the present year of about £IBO,OOO, and the Government would see what could be done in the way of retrenchment before submitting proposals for fresh taxation.