CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4249, 21 October 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) London, October 18, •jfc The late Mr Geo. Fowler, a Liverpool merohant, bequeathed £IOO,OOO to charities, October Ik Pleuropneumonia has made its appearance among a shipment of cattle landed in London from the United States. Sydney, October 19. Sergeant Hawker, of Victoria, won the Queen's prize at the Eifle Association Meeting, with a'score of 174. M'lntosh, of New South Wales, was . second, Hicks, New South Wales, third, and Marßon, South Australia, third,. In the first stage of the Dangar match, 10 shot* at 600 yds, Kutchen, of Wellington, secured the 14th prize, 12, with»BCOroofl3.

October 20. M'Cartby, of Auckland, secured a prize in the last stage of the Queen's Prize* with a score of 49, A young man named Dixon, Bhot. his sweetheart (Miss Marcontelli) near Roscdale, and then committed suicide. Tho girl ip not expected to recover. Her parent's had forbidden her to speak to Dixon, and she complied with thnir wish, which exasperated Dixon, New York, Ootohor 19, An extensive fire has occurred at Eaglowood, near Chicago. The damage is estimated nt half a million dollars, Sovoral persons wore killed, Calcutta, October 18, The s.s. Bokhara had 200,000 dollars worth of specie on board when alio was wrecked. Her commander was Captain Sims,. who was well known in the Australian trade. London, October 19. A Hamburgh seaman is suffering from cholera in Loudon. St Petersburg, October 19. Tho death rate from cholera in Russia is 900 per day. London, October 19. The Garter which has fallen vacant by the death of the Duke of Sutherland, wiil bo bestowed on Lord Hosebery. New York, October 18. The men employed on the DcnverEio Grande railway have struck work, compelling the suspension of all jrallic,