NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4010, 12 January 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. (By Telegraph,—Press Association,) London, January 9. The gift of the City of London to the Duke of Clarence and Avoudale on his wedding day is a diamond neeklaeo value IIGBO, and a dinner service value £945.

The heaviest fall of Bnow experienced in Ireland for many years has taken place. Traffic' in Belfast is suspended in consequence. Obituary—Dowager Lady Sandhurst.

The Eight Hev, Henry Philpott, D.D., ex-Bishop of Worcester, is dying. Lord Randolph Churchill has returned from the Transvaal, which he asserts is Africa's greatest possession. He has a high opinion of the loyalty of the Dutch in Cape Colony, but possesses v dislike to tho Transvaal' Boera.

In connection with the arrests made at Walsall on the charge of making bombs for; anarchical purposes, a quantity ol literature has been seized, which is of the very worst kind. The police suggest that the Walsall prisoners are connected with an anarchist club in Walsall, where the model of tho bomb was produced, : Prince Krapotkme visited the olub recently. The propaganda is extensive in the Midlands, and was discovered in November.

A firm ol Walsall iron founders wore offered large orders for castings similar to the bomb seized by the police. The police have watched the club night and day for three months, Many detectives are engaged unravelling the mystery, and the police have received many violent and seditious pamphlets emanating from Anarchist centres in Amerioa and' on the Continent.

It is believed conspiracy exists bore,'

Lords Knutsford and Oarrington are suffering from influenza, Tho influenza bacillus is oval and immobilo, and is. the smallest discovered, being half the size of that of blood poisoning, and differs slightly from Friedlander's,

FOREIGN. Calcutta, January 9. The Indian Government has decided to remit the balance of' tho sentence of those convicts who dis<, played boroism at the wruek of. the steamer Enterprise, which sank in Port Blair Harbor, Bay of Bengal, during a cyclone, PORT au Phinoe, January 9, A plot has been discovered in America to equip a raan-otavar with the object of overthrowing General Hippolyte, ■ ;

Teheban, January 9, The piiests are coercing the Shah to abolish the commercial concessions granted to Europeans on condition of the former keeping the populace quiet, Venice, January 9. The Austrian delegates at the Sanitary Conference are supporting proposals brought forward by Great Britain to allow British ports unin>. peded passsge through the Suez Canal. The French delegates are trying to get the proposals modified. Madrid, January 10, A gang of Anarchists armed with Ming pieces attacked the town of Exeresju the South of Spam and began to pillage it. A serious light ensued in which three persons were killed and twenty wpunded before the cavalry, who had come up, had sue* ceeded in dispersing the band, thirty of whom, were captured., Stockholm, January 9. The King of Sweden, who has been suffering from a severe attack of influenza, is recovering, Paris, January 9. Le Figaro re asserts that Enghnd and Morocco are parleying in- connec • tiori with the recent revolt.

The Echo de Paris sayß that orders have been issued to move French ironclads to Morocco. New York, January 9tb. A colliery explosion has taken place at Kieba, and two hundred, miners have been entombed, ofwhom seyenty wore killed.' , One liuudred of those entombed have been rescued alive. Others are known to be living, and the work of rescue is proceeding. Valparaiso, January 9, It is reported that the Cbiliiau Government borrows £5,000,000 from the banks. Ottawa, January 9. \{]he North-west territory has abandoned the inhibition of liquor, and hog re-issued the licenses, The town of liachute, the chief town of Argentduill, County Quebec, has been destroyed, It is feared that many iives have been lost, In Ottawa the grand jury found true bills against Messrs Thomas M'Ureevy and Conolly, on the charge of defrauding the Government.