CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4259, 2 November 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, October 31. Mrs Little, a passenger by tlieDorio from (New Zealand, committed suicide by jumping overboard in the Channel. The cauao is believed to bo her sufferings from sea-sickness, Two British subjects have been saved from the wiock of the steamer Eouraania (lost on the Portuguese coast) after having been in the water eight hours. They were quite naked when rescued, and thoroughly exhausted, All the women and children on board wero drowned. The steamer Eoumania lost her course in a fog, and struck the rocks broadside on, about 1000 yards from the shore. Almost instantly a fearful sea swept the whole of the officers oil' the bridge and carried away the boats, The Bcene that followed was beyond description, The Lascars, becoming pauic-slricken, were of no uso.iu the attempt to save life. As the passengers gained the deck, seeking to reach the bridge,they were swept overboard, whilo others were drowned in their cabins.

Mobl heroio attempts were made by husbands to save their wives, but without avail.' The shore is strewn with the bodies of women and children, New York, October 30. The gale blowing at Milwaukee i during the fire carried the burning 1 timbers a considerable distance. The firemen were powerless to subdue the flames. A panic resulted, find tho peoplo fled and abandoned their possessions. Merchants ore in a terrible plight. The fire is said to have originated through an explosion in an oil store, Five deaths are reported. Pabib,'October 31. The body of a woman, cut up into twelve pieces, has been found in an unfinished building in Paris, v Sydney, November 1. Addressing a publio meeting at Broken Hill, several people accused the police of brutality in arresting men who were only the worso for liquor, Wasuington, October 31, Thero has been an enormous increase in registration lately, in view of the nomination next week oi the electors who will choose tho President, though until quite recou'tly a strange amount of apathy was shown in the con'est. The "Peoples' Party" is losing ground in the Southern States.. The chief struggle will ba in New York State, ■. The Republicans tear they will lose control of the Senate, which they hayfl had for years, at the November election, ' " Brisbane, October 1.... : The Crown has decided to prosecute the Howard-Smith Steamship Company for breach of the Dividend Act, in not making the declarations required from companies trading in Queensland. The penalties claimed SUIQUQt to iU.QOQ, '