NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3988, 14 December 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Telegraph. —Pras* Association.

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London, December 10,

The collier D-.-umbtair, from Cardiff to Adelaide, has gone on the rocks in the Bristol Channel. The crew were saved. The Duke of Devonshire has rallied again.

December 11

The barque Dominion, hound for Port Pirie, has been wrecked in a gale in the Channel.

The Durham, bound for Sydney, the Kooringa for Adelaide, and the Timaru for Auckland, have all had to put back owing to the terrific gale. Fierce south-westerly gales are raging along the coast of England and Ireland. The French barque Lenore has been wrecked off Mumbles Head on the Welsh Coast, twelve of those on board being lost.

The estate of Mr Parnell shows a net value of £6OOO.

Mr W. B. Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, has assumed office. He received numerous greetings.

The Liberal Rural Conference opened to-day, Dr Watson presiding. Four hundred and twenty-five delegates were present. The discussion showed a hatred of the Tory parson and squire, and indicated a desire for allotments, market rents, fixity of tenure and the necessity for paying compensation on improvements, and the establishment of Parish Councils. The press generally refer to the Conference as a unique and instructive assembly. Eastern shippers are becoming alarmed at the Peninsular and Oriental Company inserting in its bill of lading clauses fortifying itself against loss on account of delays occasioned by strikes and other combinations ashore and afloat. FOREiaiT. Berlin, December 10. Adolph Albert, banker, of Gorlitz, a town mi Silesia, has absconded. His liabilities are 2,000,000 marks. One depositor alone loses 800,000 marks. By a lolliery explosion at Hererosdorf, in Silesia, 20 miners were killed and many injured. Eight hundred pounds in gold and cheques were stolen from the counter in Glyn, Mills, & Co.'s bank. Nine more underwriters, in connection with Lloyds', will resign n consequence of losst'B, and some alarm is tAt. St. Petersburg, Desember 11. The Russian Government is spending 800,000,000 roubles on relief works, which will give employment to 800,000 men. The Town Council has voted 800,000 roubles for the import of flour into the capital. Athens, December 11. It is reported that the King of Greece is suffering from a mild type of small pox. Paris, December 11. The Le Debats asserts that the chiefs in the recent Chinese revolts are intriguing in Tonquin. San Francisco, December 11. Thousands of people are suffering from influenza in California.