CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4247, 19 October 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, October 17. The floods have ruined the crops in i Yorkshire and North Wales, It is reported that General Li Hung Chang, Prime Minister of China, has become insane, Hong Kong, October 17. Cholera is raging at Sauchew, and hundreds of residents are dying daily. The Europeans are blamed for the outbreak of tho epidemic, and some of them have been beheaded. A panic has taken possession of the city. New York, October 17. • Thirteen miners bavo been entombed by a colliery explosion at Shamokin, in Pennsylvania, and the chances of their being rc-BCUed are considered hopeless. A blizzard has been raging in Colorado for two days, and many people have been frozen to death. Calcutta, October 17. The steamer Bokhara was wrecked on Sand Island, one of the Pescadores Group, near Formosa. The commandor and the majority of the crew were lost, Twenty-three wero saved, Sidney, October 17. The Government havo received a cable message from the New Zealand Government with reference to the San Francisco mail service, but further information is asked for, It is understood that the New South Wales Government are prepared to offer i £4001) as a contribution for one year

London, October 17. Kate Jackson, whom the friends of Macrae, ihe man arrestod for the Althorp murder, declared to be the woman murdered, is proved to have sailed for Now Zealand on 28th August, some days aftor the discovery of Hie murder, [Tho Post says:—This message relates to a horrible- discovery lately made in Northamptonshire, the armIns and headless corpse of a woman being found in a ditch midway between Haddon and Althorp railway station, tied up in a piece of coarse sacking. Besides the body thero w,\s found in the ditch two collar bones, two shoulder blades, 19 ribs, and the upper bone of an arm, which had apparently been sawn m two, together with sonic other human remains, The body was partly clad, and the clothing was saturated with lime, Andrew Macrae, a grocer's assistant, was arrested, and a recent cab'o message informed us that he lmd In on committed for trial for the murder of Annie Pritchard, but that his relatives declared she was still alive, and would bo produced at the trial.]