CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1159, 23 August 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(Recter's Telegrams,) : -mM. 1 ' [ j ,* ATTEkpTED ASSASSINATION •. v, OF ABCHBISHOFGOOLD, ; . .Melbourne, this day,; !'■:■>OTa'rrell:ifi)'ed; ia|/,Arobj)i,Bl|op. Goold from ( a only two yards The second shofdiot. n'iit' hit" the 'Archbishop,; the first alnne took effect, as already stated!: '.'.When ,Q'Fartell, pade oß y ,.be evidently believed that lie had succeeded in bis murderous attempt or would have made further use of his revolver.' When hiß pursuers ,cache j .U[) with him he threatened .to shoot them, 'but was' ultimately seoured,'; Jfjfty;.bullets were found in his pockets.«lt is olear tHat the attack beetT flilly'piaiiried and that the Archbishop-!had the moat. providential escape, ~*<> '• 'i' »"Smir, August 22. : The New Sotith Waels Parliament was opened:to'dftyj' by the,. Governor, Lord Augus'tiis ' L6ftus, • J Hid "Excelleucy's speech onjtjie occasion stated that special business necessitated the meeting of Parliament at the present time;' It announced tliat raeaßi)rea|w(iuld.be|ititroduoed dicing, tlie selaiun 'dealing 1 wirn 'tEe"following questions Local government, land laws, the consolidation and conversion' of the public; 'eeouritioa, cririiinal law, niining,' foreptj, titles to firiperty, and, the adulteration of "food, 'His Excelleocy congratulated the colony on the satisfactory 'state of the revenue, the success of the Licensing;Ao t', r aiVd' thd progress of rail way ' ex(fl|soiu VThj) ope'eclj, further" alluded to' the -qiiesiion'of water conser-vation-throughout the colony, to the works proceeding for the Metropolitan water-supply,, and the measures adopted for the ;mpt£Vom'en't( ot tho City of Sydney. . . . Melbobrne, August 22. . ,The of jth'e tw.o Hotiaes of JP.arliiimeiit pps ithefLi.cenßiii'g Bill metjto-d»y, but. has now broken Up. 'The'^Assembly has.the meaßure again under discussion. , , „ English News, , ,e. l (! . inraii V\f j\ " ; j/"' LoND(]n 4{lgust ; 21. , Sir Leigh Smttli's arctic expedition has been landed'at' Aberdeen, all well, The Eira was nipped in the ice in August; #sol, andj w'a_s abandoned. After 1 wintering, J the " party rowed'' and sledged up'tfarcWjof' a thqiisand miles to reach Nova Zethhla,' where they were found and resoued by Sir Allan Young's search expedition, . Thirteen arrests' have been made in Cunnemira,iiicnniiuction wiih the recent, murder of a family,' '.The fifth victim of the outrage has since iiied, but the sixth is recovering. Francis Fisher, late of Sydney, is dead. The Bittsburgjcolliers have been starved into surrendering, and (the strike is at an end. ■ (Calcutta, August 22. ■ j The negotiations which have been pro'ceeding'between tho Indian and Burmese Governments : fdr.otheji.coßclmion of a , trea)y, have now been terminated without the' desired object being arrived at.