CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4241, 12 October 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

- % London, October 10.' A letter published in the Daily News describes Melbourne as in an awful plight, and says that its poverty is only paralleled by that to be seen in London, The farewell 6ermon of the Bev, Thomas Spurgeon, in the Tabernacle, was listened to by a crowded congregation, the members of which cried, " God bless you; you will return again." Tne Times considers it would be a rotrogrado step to abandon the San Francisco mail service, and UMs an equitable agreement might ea% be arranged, Sydney, October 10, The Poßtroaster-Gener&l hasbad an interview with the Premier oonceming the subsidy to the San Francisco mail service, and Sir G, R, Dibbs approves the proposal to contribute /or one year the sum nf £SOOO asked for by the New Zealand Government, A youth named Morton shot his stepfather dead at Morpeth, during a quwrel. Washington, October 10. portion of Carnegie's mills at Homi-stead was dynamited, but the bomb was defective, and the damage was not extensive,

Bitainesß in Now York lias buon Buspondod for four days to celebrate the Amorica by Oolurn,. bus. Groat prairie fires are raging in Dakota, A hundred farms lrnvo been destroyed.