AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2438, 15 December 1892, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Dec. 12. Bonnet’s defalcations amount to aboui £IO,OOO. The Consul-General for Germany has written to the Premier stating that Germany is free from cholera, and requesting the removal of the disabilities placed on shipping from German ports. Captain Rowan, well-known in the New Zealand war is dead. He was a brother-in-law of Admiral Scott. The first authorised cremation in the colony took place yesterday, the body of a leper being incinerated. The Port Darwin telegraph line is interrupted. In the sculling race at McLean, Croese, who conceded Sullivan two lengths, defeated him by a similar distance. A man named Mace committed a sensational suicide by jumping from South Head into the Gap. Dec. 13. The House is discussing the circumstances surrounding the charges brought by the crew against the captain of the ship Port Glargow. Melbourne, Deo. 11. Holland, late accountant of the Port Melbourne branch of the National Bank of Australia, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment on a charge of embezzling f ile funds of Ihe institution. Dec. 13. Remarkably cold weather has been experienced for the past few days throughout Iho colony. Harvest prospects in some parts are gloomy owing to the damage caused by gales. Adelaide, Dec. 13, The suggestion made by the Legislative Council to limit the amount of butter bonus to £IO,OOO extending over a period of three years, has been agreed to by the House.