NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3395, 23 August 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

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'■;-.■ London, August 20. Owing to the rough mobs which the ■ inusioal entertainments and boxing contests given by.the Pelican Club bring about, an injunction has been applied for to indict the club as a nuisance. '•"■-.'" ' ■■

H.M.S. Ojpal has arrived at Ply-, mouth, A conference of the inhabitants of ] Newfoundland resolved to sue the Government' for,tho .damage to industries and organise'a fordo, to oppose the French, The steamship ownors are-formiug a union with a capital oi seventy to eighty millions, to enable them to frustrate the labor unions, 'v~'"..

Her Majesty has extended-her pardon to Maharajah''.- Dhuleep Singh. . ■"'-'.' ..".- :•■;.;; : 'v ■■'.

August:?!.; The Ha\vardon,Castlo, bound from Newcastle to Valparaiso with a cargo of coal, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. ". The statement that tho- cholera from which the Caloutta sailor is sufferingis the dreaded Asiatic type is denied. .

; The Financial Times oonsiders it advisable that traders should be admitted to Now Guinea,

An agitation is goiug on in ; favor of the State purchasing the English railways. , ■

Hammond, au engineer, "who disappeared in 1888, and was supposed to bB drowned at Bangor,is reported to' have been discovered in Sydney, . - . Mr Livesey, of the Metropolitan Gas Company, has been presented with a portrait of himself, aud £1760 in recognition of his sucoess in fighting the gas strikers, ,

FOREIGN.

Paris, August 20. By' storms in Franco 500 houses have been' destroyed and 30 lives lost. In places where tho gales were most violent people are camping out. The damage is estimated at a million francs.

August 21. .. Maharajah Dhuleep Singh is recovering from bis attack of paralysis, Monocco, August 21. The Sultan's troops dekted the rebels, and struck off the heads ofBC prisoners,

New York, August 20.A cyclone in the State of Pennsyl vania levelled 200 houses, and 2( persons wore killed, It is estimate! that a million dollars worth ol damage was done. ' ■ • Buyers of silver are given oni hundred and twonty and a quartei cents;

A railway accident at' Boston caused a number of passengers to become entangled in tho debris, and before they could be extricated many wore-- literally boiled to death by escaping steam, Twenty died from their injuries, Montevideo, August2l. The State of Uruguay proposes to return to a metallio regime.. Constantinople, August 20. The relations between Russia and Turkey are strained. The appointment of successor to Nelidoff, Russian Ambassador, has been deferred.

Buenos Ayres, August 20, The soldiery are iu a mutinous state, insisting on tho rebellious officers boing reinstated.

August 21. Another revolution is feared in the Argentine owing to the dismissal of the rebel officers.

Belgrade, August 20. The Servian (Jovernuient is enquiring into the alleged attempt to poison the Liberal leaders by means of arsenic.

Berne, August 20. A cyclone has caused some loss ol life in Switzerland,