CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1673, 30 April 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. Keuter's Telegrams. CAIRO, April 27. Intelligence lias been received here that the troops composing the garrison at Berber mutinied and fraternised with the Arab rebels, who are cow reported to be in possession of the town. It is further stated that great excesses are being committed by the followers of El_ Mahdi, and that the townspeople, being now without protection, are taking refuge insight. MADRID, •'. April 21, Wide-spread plots of a revolutionary character have been discovered in various parts of ie cbimiry, and hifor/nation, vliioli has reached the authorities bliows that plans for an ex-tended-rising were rapidly being carried into.effect by the leaders of the conspiracy, A serious disaster has occurred at ■Cnidad Real. While being crossed by a train, the railway bridge over the Gnadiana was precipitated into the nver, Many of the passengers .were killed, and a- large: number severely injured, It was subsequently found that the buttresses of the bridge had 1 been cut through, thus causing the catastrophe. It is. believed that the agents of the revolutionary party were perpetrators of the outrage. SYDNEY, , . April 28. Arrived, this afternoon —Onion steamship. Wairarapa; from Auckland. 'Rain has fallen here to-day, and the showers have . been pretty general throughout the country districts, A destructive fire has occurred at Dubb^,; : The'loss /l is;;estimated at .£35,500. ~ ' ;,-;.■;.'; i,. . .