NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3091, 29 December 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

■ NewYor & , December 20. f " Tlio name of llio steamer destroyed by fird 1 John Hanna, The ilie was cauW \ by a passengor letting a lighted oigaD > fill among the cargo -wlnoh was \ luigely composed of t bales of ootton, , Iu an 'nstant the inflammable materml was in a blaze, and the 1 soon obtained a good liold ,of the< lowei deds '1 ho steamer was crowded with pas engeis, und upon ' buisting through the deck a panic' -> ensued. Finding it hopeless to attempt to extinguish ;the flames,:the?;<.?% pilot steered the "vessel #for a sand- 'a bank. Upon, strikifig- thofbank lbe' steamer lebounded from the shook v into deep warter. The foice of the collision lmd the \essel a, meek, and the steam pipes e\ploded. In this condition tbe eteamer drifted : helplessly down the mer Hy this time the fire had. reached theupper »-;■ decks, and all the boats bad been .; - destroyed, so that the panic-stricken " crew and passengers were onlyjjle ' to escape from the burning vessWyv ■: plunging into tlio water. Besides' / those overtaken by the flames and burned 'to death, about sixty were drowned by jumping into the rivor.. The pilot became a raving maniao ' as the flames swept his. stand on the deck from, whence he and tlw captain had attempted to direct operations; -v and the latter terminated .his own sufferings by blowing oul his brains. Full particulars are not yet .obtainablo, owing t-> tlie e\oiteiuent still prevailing, but sufljeient is known to .*1; stamp the disaster as one of the most jfc awful tragedies in the history oifT American river; navigation. Thou-. sands ot spectators witnessed the' destruction of the steamer: -John ■; Hanna on the Mississippi, but art said to have,been powerless 'to assist-; •' Ihe drowning people. In-the ewer- 4 noss of the onlookers to get a (Aw - of tlio catastrophe a number of ; : persons were thrust into a quagmire ' on the river bank and suffocated. . • London, December 27. • Mr Dabahhai Naoroji,tho Parsee who contested Holboru at the last general has received four, thousand letters and messages, some by cable ' from Australia and America; protest- ' ing aguinst the epithet of " blackman" applied to him by_ Lord Balis- * - bury! , ' ? ~, '

The steamer Storm Queen, from Sebaatapol to Holland,.was caught in " alnuricane in the Bay of Biscay. Tho cargo shifted, And the vessel, becoming helplessi eventually foun- 1 y deied. Twenty, of the crew were „ sayed in the boats, but the went down with tho ship.-' ; .:v , Resistance to thecolleotionof tithes in Wales is increasing, l Madrid, December 27. i The house of & senator residing in <■ this city has been damaged by dyna- < mite.-*', i Washington, December 271> By a fire at M&rblehe&d in fytffaaoLusetts, 9 acres• of tones and warehouses Ac, 5 , < have been totally destroyed: -The damage •' is estimated to reaoh lialf - a ; million:. dollars, :A fire-at.Cincinnrti resulted : in .. the destruction of-factories' and dwelhnghouses to the extent of 800,900 dollars, The whioh waß formed »ith tlie, avoyted objefct of keeping •> v foreign --actbrs out of/America, ir succumbing to the redicule generally excited by the'absurdity of theidea. - ,VPabis, Deoember 27. • The Ministry are. afraid thut Boulanger will be successful in the forthcoming election for Pariz.' ■ Bado, the Parisiain murderer, w'io lies under soiitenoe of death, hr\ appealed to President Sardi Cal'rffe - for a revision of' h» sentence, • lpr asserts his claim to freedom, and that. he will not be satisfied with simply# commut : atibii'of'tli6 ; d6ath-penaUy. ' Belgrade, DeceinbeiM It is believed; that King Jinan's »■ action will bo limited to tho accflptance.of a Radical ,Cabinet or abdioa* tion. ' Buakisi, December 26. . Deserters from the Arab ranks, report thut Osman Digna is preparing • for flight into the interior. . The local sheikhs are gladly co- - operating with, the British for an attaok on Handonb. , .' •