NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3244, 7 June 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH. London, June 5. . The snareholdera in the Blnespur Company have, resolved to remove Mr Macintosh as well as Mr J, C. Brown from the directorate,' and also have decided to abandon the. Blue Duck, Fidelity and North Ireland properties in coneeqnence of Mr Morrison's report on Ijie workings, TheTharsis Copper Company refuses to entertain a proposal to limit the output. Funds subscribed for League purposes in. America, will in future he remitted to Mr Parnell direct! avoiding any contact with the Olan-na-Gael Society, The House of Commons will resume business on June 17. The lower part of a woman's body has been found in the Thames, and as it bears the appearance of being mutilated, the doctors suspect that' a murder has been committed. ' " v. Later, The additional parts of the woman's body found in the Thames have been recovered. It is believed the remains were mutilated in order ;to conceal traces of abortion. •

, AMERICAN' . Washington, June 5. , Dour thousand oorpses;have ; beeri recovered from the sceneqf the catastrophe in Connemangh Valley. A regiment of soldiers are now engaged in burying them by hundreds at a time. ..

It is estimated that fully 55,000j persons resided in the area flooded in and around Johnstown, and up to the present the registry office for-survi-vors have recorded only 9000 names. Out of one family of 29 only one survives. Another has. buried' 14 relatives, Many families are known to be extinct.

The procession engaged in carryitij the coffins extended two mta,

One of those who escaped'floated twenty-three miles astride a telegraph pole. ;

The debris piled up against Johnstown bridge will have to be burned by aid of petroleum, or destroyed by dynamite. The air for miles round tho town is tainted by the effluvium from the corpses. ■ Petersburg and Alleghany City are suffering from the poisoned water, Johnstown Square and streets surrounding it. have been swept so bare by the rushing water that not a single briok is loft, Some of the locomotives on - the railway lines were hurled along ten miles by the force of the floods.

Belief trains are now arriving on the scene daily, and money is being subscribed in all the American cities and in London in aid of the strioken district, Many hundreds of lives have been lost in other places affected by the floods, Tho floating debris car* ried away the bridge over the Susque-' hanna, at Williams Point, drowning 50 spectators who were watching the flood,

San Fhanoisco, Juno 6. Nows has been received here by steamer of a fearful hurricane at Hong Kong, during which 10,000 persons were killed and enormous damage to property caused.

FOREIGN. Paris, June 5. President Oarnot, who is making a tour through the north of France, has boen received with groat enthusiasm. The Chamber of Deputies have [ repudiated the suggestion that Lord Lytton's absence at the opening of the Exhibition should be regarded as a manifestation of linglands hostility to France.