THE CABLES.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 177, 23 December 1892, Page 2

THE CABLES.

Araiour, the Chicago ‘Pork King,’ has Dated a sum of £300,000 to the Science Institute. In the Reichstag a Bill subsidising a GenxS| mail service to New Guinea to the” extent ot £12,000 annually instead of the Samoan service has been introduced. The London Post office officials have impounded £30,000 sent in connection with the ‘ missing word ’ puzzle. The Pope declares Freemasonry to be Satanic, and asserts that it aims at replacing Christianity by naturalism. A passenger train from Bendigo to Melbourne broke away from the engine. A boy bravely crawled along the footboard and applied brakes in the van, thus bringing the train to a standstill. The Admirably has decided to court-martial Admiral Fairfax, who had charge of H.M. s. Howe when she stranded. The Pall Mall Gazette declares that the Home Rule Bill is based on the line? of the Actgranting a representative constitution to New Zealand in 1852. Extraordinary measures are being taken, to ensure secrecy with regard to the Home Rule proposals of the Government. One printer has been entrusted with the setting of the whole Bill, and ho is locked up in a room where no others are working. 1 ruth denounces the conduct of a Dublin judge who passed a sentence of only eighteen months on a labourer named Egan,"who killed his wife and threw his child into the fire, whereby it, too, met its death. M.M, Charles De Lesseps and Fontaine, directors of the Panama Canal Company, have been arrested on a charge of corrupting public functionaries. M Ferdinand De Lesseps was spared, owing to his age. The directors of the Panama Canal who have been arrested are confined in separate cells and a» not allowed to see visitors. Fourteen vans were tilled with documents sei?ed in the office of the Company. (** Stewart, a pugilist, died almost immediately after a prize fight in which he had taken part in S\ dney. His opponent Ross has been arrested. ! Matthews, proprietor of the hall, Willis, ' Oarley Burton, Diamond, and Hennessy, seconds and officials have been arrested in connection with S.ta wart’s death. The death of Stewart the pugilist, was caused by laceration and compression of the brain. A remarkable freetrade demonstration was held in the Town Hall Melbourne thousands being unable to gain admission. Sir Henry Parkes met with an enthusiastic reception. Resolutions were passed welcoming the victory of the Democratic party in the United States, and also affirming the adoption of intercolonial freetrade to asssst the restoration of prosperity.