NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3202, 11 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Londoh, May 9. The friends, of Dr. Cronin,. who-is supposed to have been murdered, declare that he was murdered to prevent disclosures as to the misappropriation of League funds. The s. b. John Williamson, 1002 tons, of Oporto, was sunk in a collision off the coast of Portugal, Turkey and Egypt have adopted the provisions of tbe Sugar Convention.

Paris, May 9. The soldier Perrin, who fired the blank cartridge at President Carnot during the fete at Versailles on Sunday, has been found to be insane, and has been plaoed under restraint, The, President has sent money to the man's family, and Madam Carnot is pleading for the man's liberation, Bkdssels, May 9. The Belgian Government, in a note to the Great Powirs proposes that a conference shall be held on Congo affairs,

. . Thursday Island, May 10, Eastern news per British India Company's steamer states that a destructive fire broke out out at lchang, six hundred houses being destroyed, and three hundred familios rendered I destitute. I

The baquo Transit in passing through the Gellalo passage, struok a rock and become a total wreck. The crew took to tho boats, and reached Hong Kong in safety. A strange and unknown disease has appeared at Minra, Japan, The mortality exceeds that of cholera.and is even a more terrible death, which in most instances ensues after' 24 hours' intense suffering, Out of 66 oases reported, 40 deaths are recorded. The age of the majority of persons attacked ranges from two years to 20. The construction of the railway from Canton to KowLoon, which is declared to be the- greatest railway ssherno ever started, will shortly be proceeded with. An _ acoident ocourred on tho Tienstin Taku Hallway, in which one European aud ten Chinamen were killed.