NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3289, 22 August 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, August 19, Mr F. 0. Licht, the sugar expert, declares the visible stocks and floating cargoes of beet sugar to be 611,000 tons, The production of eleven months of the year Bhows an increase of 209,000 tons, .

Slavin insists that if Smith is going to fight he must meet him promptly, Mr Strangways, in a letter to the Chronicle, champions the cause of Mrs Maybrick, and advocites the Colonial method ol revising sentences. August 20. The stevedores have joined the dock workmen on strike,-

An express train was overturned at Sunderland.and many persons injured, Only one was killed, A company has been formed with a capital of a quarter of a million to orecta tower in London similar to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, It is again reported that Sir Napier Broome retires from the Governorship of Western Australia, AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, August 21, The Daily Telegraph, commenting on the Ohemis case, regrets that Sir H, Atkinson's suggestion for the appointment of ut Committee to enquire into the procedure, after trials of such a character, was not carried out, and suggests that the Parliament of. New South Wales might follow the mattor up. A Bill will be introduced authorising the issue of £2,600,000 worth of Treasury bills to cover the deficit. Melbourne, August 21. Costello has been sentenced to death for the murder of a woman named Aunie Thornton, at the beginning of July, Adelaide, August 21, The Financial Statement says the prospects of the Colony are exceedingly bright, The surplus at the end of the year is estimated at £83,000. A new loan will be floated. Perth, August 21. Lord Knutsford has' decided that the charges against Chief Justice Onslow have not been proved, but to avoid friction in future Judge Ouslow will be appointed elsewhere. AN EXTRAORDINARY. CHARGE Sydney, August 20,

The Star this evening publishes an extraordinary clmrgo against tho late Captain Hansby, of the steamer Dupleix, who was killed by a tram car a few days ago. It alleges that on the last trip of tho Dupleix from Wellington to Sydney, while the vessel was in Cook Straits, Captain Hansby wasjin an incapable condition and the vessel was in great clanger of being wrecked when off Pelorus Sound, The passengers and crew then petitioned the chief officer to take charge of the steamer. Ho did so, and thus saved the vessel. The Star published confirmatory affidavits sworn by members of the crew and passengers. Tho crew declined to make another trip with Captain Hansby. On tho arrival of the Dupleix in Sydney the chief officer was dismissed without any reason being assigned, and the second officer and crew were transhipped to another vessel,