CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4232, 1 October 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, September 29. Sir E. C. N. Braddon, AgentGeneral for Tasmania, publishes an article in one of the local papers, demanding that England shall legalise the celebration of any marriage in the colonieß with a deceased wife's sister. Ladv Mabel Bruce has married a bookmaker named Sevier Sutton, who visited Australia some years ago. Tho London County Council has decided to try the experiment of dispensing with contractors, and is organising a direct municipal staff of workers under trade union conditions.

Messrs W, and A, Gilbey's report, published in tho Times, states that the Fronoh claret vintage of 1892 is good, though the crop was only about half the avorage quantity, The vines are now healthy. St Petersburg, September 29.

It is stated that the Tartars at Saratoffhave reverted to humau sacrifices.

A victim's head was partly severed, and his heart torn out, while the savages danced round images. I Madrid, September 29. [ The Spanish vintage is goed in both quality and quantity. The cereal crop, however, is deficient and it will be necessary to import £4,000,000 worth.

Vienna, September 28. Louis Kossuth demands the production of tho Austrian law of dynastic succession, He claims that it is a forgery,

Belobade, September 28. Ail armed force of masked men stopped a Liberal meeting at Bel-, grade,

Berlin, September 29,

The Emperor of Germany has conferred the order of the Bed Eagle on the Khedive.

Ban Fkancieco, Sept, 29. Dr Beales, keeper of the Hospital of the Society of Females, baa been arrested on a serious charge connected ■with the institution, It is reported that forty children are missing. Dr Beales was released on bail, and aided, it is alleged, by wealthy families lie escaped. Mrs Montrose, a midwife, who was his accomplice, has confessed, ,