NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3097, 7 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

:; '.■-".' r Lonuoft;3r'ct Jfliiuary. i ;■: : Mr ? vGlaclßtone mbdjifies'^liia : rdceiit utterances with: status* of 'the'/ Pope.; Ho Estates' lie is J hot deairoua of seeing the) touippral. power restored, but is suxirfiw' tliiit the. Pupal prestigoshqiikHie: maintained, . The Maori Football Team beiifr the Leeds Parish-Club' by' two gqals'to three tries,. .)),.. ' .■ '• ')>.'•' '■'••. ,•;') < •? . : j 4th Jnriuai'y. ■': A lad named. Stevenson, 19 years of age, stabbed a ..Glasgow prostitute in the nejk and.-.abdomen."'. The woman, was not killed, • but is 'in a precarious condition. 'The culprit was remanded. He admitted that thet desire to imitate ".Jack the Ripper" bad induced him to commit "the crimp..

Washington, 3rd January. . Seven negro servants of Colonel PaxtDU of Areola, .Illinois, .plotted together to) rob tb'n house*, and then burn it down. The. better) to carry, out their purpose''they drugged the members of the household by tampering with their coffee, but tho soporific proved ineffective, : and in some Instances the victim 3 awoke. 'The result was that the criminals were all captured, and, it is fully expected they will be lynched,

Paris, 4th Januaty. '.' M. Vaissler of, Nice, has invented a gun which can fire MOO shots mten minutes;

.ZanzibAh, 3rd January. : Heavy fighting between tho Germans and the Arabs'of the mainland is reported. , ; ,

biNGAPOKE, 3rd January,

■ 'llia British-Borneo Company have been forced to take up arms against some of the natives on their territory and an oncounter has taken place, but no details are to hand,

Baku, 4th January, A train on the Tffiia railway south of the Caucasus lias been snowed up, Fourteen passengers are reported to he dead, and twenty dying, Two hundred people in all are in imminent danger of being frozen to death unless roscited immediately.