NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4034, 10 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

* etoh.;... (Per United Press Aasooialion). London, February \ The Jesuists will elect a VioarGeneral in the place of the lace Father Anderledy in May. MrMorley, in of a speech, severely orittoised Mr J, Chamberlain's pension soheme. The agitation of the English Socialists in favour of freo. Bpeecb has been abandoned for tho present. Tenders for the Western Australian loan of £260,000 aU per cent, with a minimum of 99, were opened to-day. The amount subscribed was only £228,000, but the London and Westminster Bank has taken the balance at the minimum. References were universally made to the death of Mr Spurgeon in the ohurches and chapels of England yesterday. The Rev Archibald Brown conducts the funeral service. The Archdeacon of London, preaching at St Paul's .yesterday, spoke in terms of great praise of the life and labours of Mr Spurgeon, thousand additional engineers have gone out on strike. The Toronto Globe alleges that Caron Tarte, who made the original charges which led to the disclosure of corruption iu Canada, obtained money himself from M. Greevey, one of those implicated in 1887, on the pretence of using it for electioneering purposes, mam*

New Yohk, .February 8, The Royal Hotel has been destroyed by fire, . Two hundred of the guests and employ6s lost their lives in the flames and a number of others who attempted tor escape by jumping from the windows were killed. The Royal Hotelwas a six-storey building. '■■''■'■ , 'Tlpa fire began in the cellar, ■ The latest reports reduoe ilie number estimated tq have perished to IQO. Shocking scenes occurred during the progress of the fjre. . The life-saving corps worked splenThe driver on an elevated railway detected the fire in the Royal "Hotel at three o'clookin.the morning. He stopped the train and whistled loudly, and so woke up the inmates of the buying. ' Fivo'bodies have been recovered from the Royal Hotel debris. Sixtynine are missing.

: Twenty-four of the inmates were injured in attempting to escape, while 81 managed to get out of the burning building without being hurt, ; /. •;.;. The nightwatchmen at the hotel were i)ndof' the influence of drinji, Oawoita, February 8,

: The population of, the, ; whole of India, as shown by the late Census,i.3288,000,000... ,:■-.;"; ;.."•: , •■■•• .:; .WABHINGIOH, ieuiu«. ; ... , llhr|p|«# fif C|||lj by ihe (Jentral and' Soutlji' American Republics, :■ ■' ""-■'' .'■'' ■■ '•'''■ "v Mr Blaine, in a .letter, declines to be nominated for the •/;Cairo, February 8:, The Khedive has decorated the | French Minister and the Admiral and ofßcers of the squadron. Theßussian fleet haa arrived, and the Italian fleet also visits 'Alexandria' to salute tho young Prinoe, r