CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4221, 17 September 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, 16th September, The experts who wore present on board the Nairnshire at the trial of Mr Walters' improved mothodofcool chambers, states that the patent machinery exhausts all noxious gases, introduces air into tho lower spaces, and clears the chamber. Cairo, 15th September. Tho sale of alcohol has been prolflfttad in Egypt south of the 20th degree. New York, 15th September, * Five deaths from Asiatio cholera occurred between tho 6th and 13th of September. The victims were all people who had been residents here for many years, The steamship companies have agreed to convey no steerage passengers from European ports to America for thopresent. Sporadic cholera has made its appearanco in New York, The other States aro excited, and the feasibility of excluding Now Yorkors, • The White Caps Socret Moral Society ofKnockvilio entered a house and seized a mother, daughter, and son belonging to a sect known as "Libertines," and having stripped ' them to their waists, flogged them. The trio were then released, but were * informed that worse would happen unless thoy left tho country. London, September 18. of the Bank of England for the half-year are L 735.000. A dividend of five per cont has been declared,

Septembor 15, The Glamorganshire Building Society has suspended payment, owing to the large embezzlements of (lie funds by the Secretary, who has absconded. The deficiency is stated to be L 20.000. The amount of deposits in the Birkbeok Bank yesterday wasf2l,ooo, Though a slight run continues, under a million sterling has been withdrawn. f There have only been 1,200 withdrawals out of 63,000 accouuts in the Birkbeck Bank,

September IG. Tlio run on the Birkbeck Bank has stopped. The total amount of the redeposits exoeed L 70.000. September 15. In an address to tbe dockers Mr Tom Mann, the retiring President, denied that Unionism inevitably meant war with capital, Its objects Wjkjcial and national. Tne cricket averages for tbe year are just out, Shrewsbury heads tbe batting, with an average of 42; "W. Q. Grace bus 81; Murdoch, 29; and Woods, 19. In the bowling, Woods took 158 ■* wickets for an average of 16 runs apiece, and Ferris 80 for 24. Spofforih, who has played but little, only appears with nine wickets to his name, at an average of 31 runs each. Adelaide, September 16, The boys in a large suburban school struck against the removal of a master, They JjXiann riotous, smashed windows, and damaged the furniture. Brisbane, September 16. P. Horrocks, a youth of 19, in a good position, who tomahawked a new arrival named Weismuller and was sentenced to death, will bo executed on 26tb September. Sydney, September 16. Tho members of the Labour Defence are charged.with conspiracy. ' With the oxception of Sleath and Ferg'pp the members were arrested whileM&ey were deliberating, A quantity of books and papers were seized. London, September 15. Leading financiers in the city assert that they never knew a time when any loan was less likely to succeed than at present. On a petition filed by the sons, a , receiving order has been mado against the estate of the late Dr Philip Vanderbyl, of Eedfearn, Alexander and Go.