NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3095, 4 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, January 1. A telegram from Stanley Pool, nil the Congo, says that a number ol letters from Stanley will reach England in March. A telogram conveying important news is expected at an earlier dato.

Svdxby, January 2. Terrible gales swept the east end of the Solomon Island Group at the end of November, destroying plantations .md houses in all directions, The Sydney schooner Lizzie was caught in a'gale, and dismasted, She had a' .narrow escape of foundering, and was so much damaged that she to condemned. She was insured in the South British oflico.

The drought "bus broken up at Silverton (inland).

flluLßouuNE, January 2, i It is still raining generally iu tho colony, and heavy floods have been experienced in ,some places. In Maldon the main street was wrecked bjr the water pouring down it, and at Sandhurst a man named Handle was drowned.

It is proposed to expend £183,000 to support a defence force 0M2,000 men.

Hobaet, January 2, ' The barquentine Empress of China, from (Jeelong to Hobart, was totally wrecked on Pyramid Rock in a fog on Monday, The crew wero saved. -

Adelaide, January 2. Lambert, driver of the coach which fell over a precipice yesterday, is dead.

- Melbourne, January 8, As the steamer Hauroto, from Fiji was coming , up Hobson's Bay in a blinding squall yesterday, she collided with the ship King Arthur. The ship was cut down to the waters edge, but was immediately taken in chargo by the steamer, and towed to a place of safety and lightened. The Hamoto, sustained no damage from the collision.

The floods have booh very heavy throughout most of the country districts. flastlem.aino is a picture of desolation. A t the digging township of; Vanglmn, about 12 miles from Castlemaine, the Chinese camp was washed away, and three Chinese drowned while two are missing. At the Guildford agricultural and mining district between Castlemaine and ■Vaughan, the loss is. estimated at £150,000, The town of Nliill, in the Wimmera Distriot, has also suffered severely, and a block of buildings owned by Dowell was entii'ely demolished by the gale. It is still raining i heavily,

Adelaide, January 8. Sixty miles of the railway line in course oi construction to connect thip city with the Broken Hill mines has been extensively' damaged by the floods. Great damage has also been done to tho. overland'telegraph line. M Beltafla < tho; line is completely washed away, and the 'wire in many places is under water. .

Brisbane, January B.' lii' cOnsequonoe of the heat the death rato at'Croydon is very heavy, and the life insurance companies are refusing to insure residents.