CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1568, 27 December 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Telegram's! !

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.' 1

LONDON, December 24. Received December 26,0.40 a.m.Intelligence is to. hand from Malata (sic Malta) that a five broke out at the Jewish school there while the building was occupied by children-. The majority succeeded in escaping, but sixteen were burnt to death, and a number seriously injured. The school itself was totally destroyed. . MELBOURNE,:; . December 26. Received December 20, 8;10 p.m.-r-Arrived, yesterday morning—P. and 0. steamship Paramatta, with Suez mails, dated London, November 18.. Sailed, this morning —Steamship Tarawera, for Bluff. LONDON, December 22. Beceived December 25, 0.55 a.m.— Telegrams aro to hand from Antwerp stating that the steamer Catanea; from Sydney, had arrived there, and reported that her was considerably damagefl by afire which broke oufc during the passage. ST. PETERSBURG. December 23. The Czar is suffering sovorely from the injury to his shoulder, and has been ordered by his medical attendants to take complete rest. SYDNEY, December 27.

A fresh discovery of gold has been made near Temora, and the reports from the field are causing great excitement. Perman and party have unearthed a nugget weighing seven and a-half ounces. Many claims havo already been pegged out, • A serious tragedy lias occurred at Waterloo, a suburban township about two and a half miles from the city. A woman of tho vagrant class named Catherine Owens was found cruelly outraged and murdered. The penetrntors of the crime have not yet been discovered,