CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4253, 26 October 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

San Francisco, Ootober 24. Advices from China stato that the rivor Hoang Ho has broken its banks, and 50,000 people have been drowned, It it feared that the disaster will result in famino, and that quite 1,000,000 people will die of starva* tion. New York, October 24. The insanity of the captain of the Russian warship Zabraka, who seized the. Canadian sealers off Cooper Wand, • has been confirmed. The American vessel were seized under similar ciroumstancos, but wero restored, and the mistake admitted. An impression is hold in the United States that there is a secret understanding between Russia and Japan respecting the treatment of sealers in Bearing Sea. Home, October 24, The floods in Sardinia continue, and five villages in the vicinity of Sanapereti are submerged, Several hundred peoplo have been drowned, and thousands of sheop and cattle lost, ! Six thousand people have been rendered homeless by the Sardinian floods. The survivors describe the shrieks of the viotims as something terrible, Large tracts of fertile Country have been converted into lakes. London, October 24-, The death is announced of the Duke of Roxburgh, aetae Calcutta, Ootober 24. The Chins in Burmah are destroy- • ing the roads for the purpose of obstructing the advanoa of tb» British reinfor«menjf,