NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2993, 3 September 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

' i% '. \ . V • I ■ London, 30th August, . Mr Hare, Mayor of- Surbitonin Surrey, was- shot-dead by Ins son, who had . recently , returned;' 'from; Australia, whither he had been sent for the 1 benefit of his health, The young man, who was known, to ho suffering froni violonb'autcidul tenden-' .cies; after killing his father,' shot himself dead with the same revolver',: • ! 7 .: The Daily Telegrauh publishes an iilarinist article condeniriing the deficiency of the naval and military armaments of Great Britain. freights to New. Zealand by sailing vessels lmve advanced 5s per ton. NkwYoric 30th August. A subscription lias been opened in America for the purpose of raising monoy to assist Mr'Parnell in his caso with the Times, . Sydney, September 1," The share list of the New Zealand Kauri Company is closed, nearly the whole oi the issue being taken up. Baron Von Mueller has been elected President of tho Australasian Society for the advancement of science for 1889. Special services praying for rain, wero held in various parts of the colony yesterday. Melhouhne, September 1. Thcodoro Hansen, charged with murdering one of the Crew of tho schooner Luciuna on the voyage from New York, has been sentenced to four years for manslaughter.