NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4082, 6 April 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH., I London, April The Supremo Court hag made an order for the compulsory liquidation of Murietta's firm. It is rumoured that Matbian, Eavachal's principal accomplice, has made bis escape to England. Si,' Petersburg, ApriU, Forty women have been arrested at Vilnaon a charge of wholesale infanticide, It is stated that a native force, under command of British officers, is being raised on the West Coast of Africa, to suppress revolts among the natives. Pabis, April 3, The arrest of Euvachal was effected through tho agency of a waiter in a wine shop which he frequented. Tho Commissioner of Police was informed of Ravachal's visits to this wine shop, and paid the waiter a largo sura of money for information which led to the arrest. The waiter is to be decorated with the cross ot the Legion of Honour. April 4. Ravaohal has made a sta'ement incriminating three of those who assisted hi-u to carry out the recent explosions, and admitting that he is guilty of five murders, A factory for the secret manufacture of dynamite has been discovered near Paris, Eavnchal has confessed that he planned the murder of members of the Chamber of Deputies who voted for the capital punisbmentof dynamiters, Intelligence has been received to ' the effect that French troops in ■ Dahomey bavo suffered a reverse in , an engagement with the natives. i Eeinforcements are being sent to their assistance,

A petition bearing the signatures of 400,000 Chinese residents in the Uuited Stales has been forwarded to the Emperor of China, requesting him to compel the United States Government to remove the restrictions which they have placed on the Chinese, •FOREIGN. Washington, April 8. Tho tornado which swept over the north-west portion of the United States, caused the death of fifty people in Kansas and seven in Chicago. The fatalities in connection with the tornado, which also swept Texas -and Utah, have reached 100, The United Slates revenue lias decreased nine millions m nine booths, and the expenses six millions. By a fire at New Orleans, cotton to the value of £BOO,OOO was destroyed. New York, April 8. : A sensational 'vnching affair is reported from Kansas. A negro who had assaulted a lady, was captured by the tsnd of lynohers, who fastened a rope round his neck and lied the end of it to a horse, which, on being set free, went oft at a galloping rate. The culprit's body, which was piqked up a considerable distance away, was shockingly mutilated, Zanzibar, April 4, Reinforcements been sent from here to Colonel Rogers at AVitu. Buenos Ayues, April 3. The city is in a state of siege, Several prominent Liberals have been arrested on a charge of oonspiring to murder the President and two other leading officials, 'r; April 4. The Bdicals in the city deny that they instigated the revolt, Dr, Alero, General Garcia, and others, have been conveyed under police escort to Ptaten Island, They are to be oharijed with high treason, The Radical leaders and 40 of the officers of the Argentine Army have been deported in warships to' Tierra del Fuego, owing to their being concerned in the plot to compass a revolution and by the aid of dynamite to murder the President, the Civil officials, the heads of the Army, und the leading citizens, . Larse quantities of, dynamite We been widely distributed, Many bombs and incriminating documents havo been seized, Cavalry patrol the city, and the soldiers sleep in their uniforms, The Army and Navy both remain loyal, and the oity is quiet, . Lima, April 8, General Nicholas de Pierola, exPresident of Peru, is organising a revolt in order to regain the Presidential chair, whioh he vacated in 1881, but the Government troops are dispersing his followers. Caracas, April 4, . A bomb was thrown at the house of tlje. Preside); of Venezuela, the building being demolished,' , .New. yo«E,-April i ■The New York Herald publishes a despatch from Venezuela, etatingthat the rcbels'have' defeated the Government I reaps, .with heavy loss on both Bidew !: -: 1, ' i !' , T' ;! '' i ' ! ''■'•'• ■•"''' ••;'''^■•l