NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3205, 15 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, May 18, The threatened strike of colliers. at Durham haß been averted. \ Chicago, May 13. It ia now reported that the box discovered at the Chicago cemetery had contained a corpse, A man named Gill, who conveyed it to the cemetery, has been arrested; He confesses that another person, calling himself a doctor, placed the body in a box, and afterwards escaped,' The corpse has not been found, though a close search has been made for it, .. London, May 13. Forty-two colliers at Essen have struck, - ' ■"■ •

CoNSTAOTINOPM.May 13. The Porte is /enquiring into, the alleged atrocities In Armenia. The Turkish authorities state that they have'been greatly exaggerated, ■; London, May 13, •

On the arrival ot the Orient Com : pany'a s.s. Iberia it was discovered that 5000 sovereigns,, shipped' at Sydney, had been, stolen, It if believed that the theft was effected during the steamer's, stay at Melbourne,

On bunday raoroini; a body of 60 police made a raid on a fashionable baccarat club, in Park Place, and took the inmates by. surprise. - Fifteen were arrested including/Lords Dudley, Faulet, and Lurgan, and Messrs Merry and Benson (the Jubilee Plunder). £IB,OOO in hard cash was, also seized- ~ •'-.} The same morning another mid was made on the Adelphi Club, aiid 47 gamblers were arrested. The gambleis -arrested in Park Place were bailed out, but those captured at the Adelphi Club, were not, The statement that: the Marquis of Ormond is to succeed the Marquis of Londonderry, -ab- tho. Viceroy of| Ireland is denied, ; : ''•■-'■ v ;: ■•■'''.'':''. l

! Jlessrs O'Brien and Hartington, dressed in their prison clothes, were serenaded by a number ofadmirm,' ;.■•" Cako, May 12.

The ruraonred capture of Khartoum by El Senoussi'a lieutenant to.

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ascertained td'be'false." . ,;..■. • J ?|; ■/ ;t£ v; •. May : ; tlitofslto the Exhibition number. lOOlojialaiiy.' -:-• i^V.-^ v -- ; " ; - : "-:; ; 'Ma y -13;:;v ' ;, lKe Berlin correspondent .of the Tinies states that the Powers con.. cerned have agreed to restrict the importation and Bale of firearms and. liquors into Samoa.*..'•>.• •• ;■- '■**■., .- Equal commercial rights 'are to be granted to all Powers. Tlio sub-committee has decided to recommend' a tripartite administration of the municipal district of Apia, and alloy?"the natives to elect their pwn'Kitig,\ - : ; ':■' England'; has assumed a neutral attitude. 'J< - -, ■' . "' Th|'.;Confereneo is not expected to close ?or a fortnight. r '