CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 343, 20 September 1898, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

In the sculling contest for the Sportsman's Cup, Barry beat Wray by a short half-length. Towns beat Bubear. The winner finished virtually alone, Bubear stopping exhausted. News from New Guinea states that the bush tribes living on the slopes of Mount Suckling raided the villages in Collingwood Bay, and killed a chief favourable to the British, and 15 men. Divers are repairing the bottom of the steamer China, prior to her entrance to Pcrim. A high official of Corea has confessed that he ordered the cook to poison the King at the instigation of a former interpreter attached to the Russian Legation, who was once a Court favourite; but had been disgraced. Mr George Wyndham, the member for Dover, succeeds Mr Curzon as Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office. At the Cape elections, two Progressive candidates were returned for VryIburg. Mr Rose Innes, formerly Attorney-General, has notified that he •will support Sir J. G. Sprigg, the present Premier. Eastern news by mail states that a typhoon swept over Formosa. _ The river Amsui overflowed and the city of Taipei was submerged. A thousand houses collapsed and many persons a-, ere killed. Immense damage was done and many lives lost. Under the auspices of the British Association, Professor A. Berson and Mr Percival Spencer, two well-known aeronauts, and Mr H. M. Stanley, ascended in a balloon from the Crystal Palace grounds to a height of 27,500 ft. At 25,000 ft. they were compelled to breathe compressed oxygen from ?ie American and French mission stations at Hochon and Chung King, in the province of Suchwan, have been attacked. The latter was burnt. Obituary :—Major George Dewentou, ffitat 74. Deceased went to Tasmania in 1543 in command of the Victoria Guard, and subsequently was the first white man to land in Northern Queensland, where Port Gladstone now stands. The shipment of rabbits in one hold of the steamer Duke of Portland, from Lyttelton, ha 3 been found mouldy.