CABLE SUMMARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3035, 26 July 1893, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

Cardinal Moran's illness ia caused by over-work in connection with his history of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia. The steamer Cbinghu has arrived at Thursday Island from Hong Kong with two oases of smallpox on board. It is reported that J/>rd Cromer (Sir Evelyn fearing) his been offered the post of Vjcercy of India. News from San Salvador, Central Amerio, Btates that the President has executed twenty-thrge leaders of the recent revolt. i ''*

Huddart Parker are in communication with the Canadian Government respecting railway facilities for connecting with their steam line. •

A parcel delivered by post at Rroadstairs, in Kent, exploded, killing a resident named Richards in the presence of his wife and child. It b believed that the package contained dynamite.

The " Globe " thinks it will be interesting to watch New South Wales abolishing the payment ,9! and considers it surprising tha,t the system was ever adopted.

The Court awarded the Hawarden .Castle £7000 for assisting the lonic when ehe broke her shaft off Capetown. Qt this amount £5600 goes to the owners and the rest to the captain and crew. Painful details are published of the torture to which Armenian prisoners are subjected by the Turkish authorities, numbers of them having been beaten almost to a jelly while others have bean seared with hot irons.

An important point has been decided in the New South Wales full Court by five Judges to two, the effect of which is to hold that silence on the part of a prisoner could be commented on and used as evidence against him.

Information has been received at Singapore that a number of Chinese passengers on board a Dutch tradsr pirated the ves*el, killing the English officers and twenty; tw9 of the crew. Fifteen other members ofthe crew were injured.

Ihe Marine Board of New South Wales has called on Captain Thorpe, of the steamer Elingamite, and Lewis, second officer, to show cause why the collision with the schooner Guiding Star, which was cut in two, should not be attributed to their want of vigilance,

Mr Hogan, M.F., in an interview with a "Gbrojuoie'' reporter, saidty* foresaw the the advantage of having a party of Australian members in the House of Commons able to compel attention $o questions like Huddart Parker's claim for subvention to their mail steamers.

Mr J. Wilson is sueing a London evening paper for £1000 for libel for accusing him of recklessly expending the funds of the Seamen's Union, of which he is secretary. In his evidence in the libel suit, Wilson admitted that local securities to the extent §t £2000 had been embezzled, and also that the .ejcpenrtjitpre per annum on salaries and management amounted to nearly £20,000 before tfce meairbers of the IJnion derived any benefit*. He alsp admired that jt was illegal to apply to the expenses of 'management £8000 of subscription received for a special purpose. -„.