LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2521, 8 May 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tblh&baph.J

[Per s.s. Arawata, at the Bluff ]

[“aegus” specials]

LONDON, April 25,

The trial of eight persons, who are charged with having, by their negligence to enforce proper precautions, contributed to the catastrophe at the Bing Theatre, has commenced in Vienna. The defendants incl ude—Ne wald, the ex- burgomaster of Vienna; Janner, the director of the theatre, and three of bis official; Land-steamers, the chief commissary of police, who was on duty at the theatre on the night of the fire ; a fireman of the Vienna fire brigade ; and the official of the Municipal Board of Works. The trial will probably last a long time. General Skoboleff, the hero [of Plevna, is suffering from an attack of inflammation of the lungs. The condition of the Jewish residents in the south of Russia is described as pitiable in the extreme. At a congress of tho various relief committees, held at Berlin, arrangements have been concluded to facilitate the wholesale emigration of Bussian Jews to the United States.

It is reported that Pope Leo XIII. is suffering from illness. Sight 7 thousand oisesbave been submitted to the Irish Land Court for decision of the Commissioners; 10,000 cases have been decided, but there are 1400 appeals. The Orient and Pacific Steam Navigation Company have declared a dividend of 5 per cent, per annum. The firm of Messrs Armitage Bros,, merchants and steam sawmill proprietors, Colombo, hoo failed for £250,000. Ralph Waldo Emerson, L.L D., American philosopher, is ill at Concord. The Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Irish Land Act have decided to recommend that the State should lend tenants who are desirous of purchasing their holdings, the whole money of the required, arranging for its repayment at a rate not to exceed the rents paid at present. Novograd, a German colony in South Russia, has been overrun and plundered by the Hi Bin B peasantry. Sir Henry Bulwer, the Governor of Natal, has ordered the Zulus who assembled at Pietermaritzburg and demanded the release of their late King, Oetewayo, to disperse.

Famine and civil war are imminent in Zululand.

A terrible storm was raging along the English coast on Saturday and Sunday, occasioning a number of fatalities. Several vessels were wrecked, and a vast amount of injury to property was caused. A number of infernal machines have been posted to Vanderbilt, the American millionaire and ship owner, and to Cyrus Field, the celebrated electrician, at his residence in New York, one of the machines exploded in course of transit, but fortunately caused no injury. Further wedding festivities in celebration of the marriage of Prince Leopold and Princess Helena of Waldeok-Pyrmont, have been stopped in consequence of the death of the Crown Princess of Wurtemburg, who died in childbirth.