NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2756, 23 November 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(By Electric Telegraph;)' ■-■'.' ■;' November 21. ■• The death is announced of Breslin, who was connected with the American whaler Catalpa, in which a number of .Irish political prisoners escaped from, Freemantle,' Western Australia, 'in' 1875, ■■■.■;.•• ■ ;:>";.•,■>:..

Those drowned from- the steamer Scholteri, which collided in the Channel on Saturday, are chiefly Germans. The-Italian troop 3 will oc'eupy the town of Anlatp,/;pn; the; Abyssinian frontier, and -:^ill;..'there await the attack''of,the Abyssiiiiaiis.'- '.• 'M.- Dejlowitz,' Parig" (jorrespop den t of. the .times, states; that .the Irppp&m Paris have been confined to' r hatracks owing' to fears of a revolution, .-.M. Cleiueneeau : states;that ho/will -only-acceptofficeil M.Gjevy resigns the Presidency of Prance'

'V suit of olotho3 has boeri/surreptitiously, conveyed tp. MrvW.O'-BrienV who is confined in the Tullarnpro" gaol. ■..;■": :/ .". ' -'JA

Paris, November 20. '■';' •President Grevy, on'tlieradvice of M. ■ Freycirietj has_>'Su'muioned M. : Clemenceau to undertake the formation of a new Ministry,' . .•..-..- '..-.'

.- (Per s.s.TsAna'u at the Bluff.)• ■"• ■/ [United Press Association.].'' : v. ■' . Melbourne, November 15, / The following.items- wore received .by :< the mail: -Londori,i4th October.; ; Ai-a opnferpnco. of ladies, held in Bondstreoi', oh tho subject'of dress, it/was; decided:that'tho- nluitiage '.of small, birds should no longer be considered ,as fashionable triniining for--robes:'6r of the- year, extremely cold .weatherfias" set"■ ■ in ■throughout the -British' Isle's, snow having fallen in considerable quantifies inihe northern districts. London has also been visited-.with sharp fets and a slight fall of snow.—A slight shock of earthquake was felt throughout the Rhonda' Valley, South \Vale3, on Wednesday last, accompanied by a rumbling noise. It created considerable alarm amongst tbe miners and' others. -Sir Henry Holland, Secretary .for ; the Colonies, has left London for Bath where he has been ordered by - Im medical advisers.—The- Committee of the Royal Geographical Society have intimated their intention to make, a loan of some useful-instruments "to Mr Bevah'oivhis approaching expedition to New Guineal The loan is made as. signifying the high opinion the society entertains of Mr Bevan's skill and enterprise.

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

. [Per s s. Te. Anau at the Bluff.] (Uiiiled.Press'Associatid'i,-):;, MELBo'tiENE/November -16." Exceptional interest will be given to the next football.season 'in Australia by a visiting English team,.which'will consist./pf''22'rof' the best football playersmEngland. In Victoria they will play tho-Victorian game;in which they will bo specially coached,- In■ Sydney they will, play the Rugby game All tho arrangements are being .made by Lillywhite. . - ..

The . all-night - sitting;..: of .the -Assembly on Wednesday night, terminated at 10 o'clock the next morn-' ing. -The Licensing Bill being under consideration in Committee, there was a largo attendance oi both parties, the reason being that it was; known/that the Temperanco leaders iuteudel'to attempt to amend' clausQ"46 6(6 as io enable a bare majority, of ing. at' the local' option/ polls;. to close 'hotels; On the vote.lieihg taken;'the amendment wasroje'otodby-32 to '28,. It is understood. •, that the Australian Federal. Council will -meet 'at Hobart early.in February next. Up to .the present ' time, 'no definito arrangomeut lias beon made as to tho programme of busine3s-to be brought forward; -. The proceedings have been delayed in the'hope that New South Wales' and South Australia would agree to send representatives to sit in the/Council.'

The shearers' dispute still continuesin the Western District, though gradually the Union 'men are giving way, and accepting the. terms offered by the squatters,

A HORRIBLE DEATH; An accident of a fearfully sudden nature (says the Sydney Eve'ningNews of the 7th inst.), happened last night at the works of the Sydney Ice 'Company whereby the manager was killed. Mr Palmer, the Manager and Engineer of the Company; took his daughter and two lady friends, to'the works' to show them.round. Among the places visited was the cooling chamber at the top of thebuilding. .By some means one of the ladies (a'Miss O'Connor) got her dress, which was. of a woolly- material,"caught in one. of the' shafts. /;-Finding she could not drag it away,';she.called for Mr Pa,lmer.who ' i rushe'd-ove,r/tO-Help her; but unfor'tuna'fely igp't entangled himself. - In trying ■'to i ' ; tear/'if. away by/force- his fingerswere.caughtin-the shaft, and wore gradually'; drawn- down until his: iirms W9re';_cpiiip!e'tely crushed aiid. ■broken..'''; Drawing, him ■•.still- further-) the iron oame' ; acro.gs -hi's .thrpatjind 'chbkeds Jiini. ■'■ -Jhe, engines'. : we& stopped immediately, and Mr ...Harris was taken to hi 3 residence.-iiC'Tala'ce,-'terrace, Harria-strejjt. ■■ JJr Milford.f as 'sent-for, but on his arrival the/Mail-; tger wa3 found to bo quite' dead, ' Palmer was 52 years of a*g«, and had been for 8a years connected'- with:the business,•■ The lady;beyond.'havihg. tlio dress' completely :toru off her back;; ' L y'-/'-^

' .■/.■'■IO'WEEDIIOB.' ..,!;,:,, -' &b.—AViir ynu ' isindly allow mo through jj'our columns to acquaint, the^ people of tho Wairarapa of the fact that' lam giving np 'the pprtibli of: mybusihbss entirely, and consequeritlr aini)owßejii'ng mens', youth's and boy's. clothing at wliatßVer it will fetchi as 1 am" deteriniiied'to realise/on it at allhasards, . l './'■■-..' fl- ■*" :: /' Clothier- -and, Outfitter,, corner of Cuba;