CABLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4281, 22 November 1892, Page 2

CABLES.

London, November 20. Wright/one of the Labour lenders, addressing an assemblage of unemployed on Tower Hill, stated that London would unexpectedly witness the spectacle of a midnight march o£ unemployed, when, he thought, there was no saying what would happen, Tb9 unemployed would rery soon have a nice and lively time of it. His remarks were cheered. Disorderly scenes ooourred during the meeting. The police charged the people, many being trampled on. Charles Stephenson, champion sculler of New Zealand, has challenged Bubear.to row for the Searle Memorial Cup on the Thames. . * The jurymen empannelled in the case of M'Rae, oharj?ed with the Althorpe murder, leftthe Court at thai-, • luncheon hour. IV The judge, therefore, postponed.the" trial until next Assizes, and finedthe jurymen £SO each,

Tho inquiry into tho oiroumstances [Surrounding thoTbirsk railway accU dent, resulted in a verdict of mansloughter being returned against the signalman," The jurymen considered that the direotors of the .company wore responsible for insisting ou long shifts.

At the inquest on those killed in tho Tbirsk railway acoident, the jury recommended that night duty should be limited to eight hours. A steamer oollided with and overthrow a small lighthouse in Belfast Lough, the inmates being drowned. The Rev. Dr. Olutterbuok, who was sentenced to four years' imprisonment on a oharge of ombezzlomeni, liqb died in gaol, Earl Dunraveu describes the Evicted Tenants Commission as a fiasco, though in ■ somo respeota the most arbitrary and unconstitutional proceeding of the century. It is, he'says, Ik,, a significant exhibition of the lawless r and tyrannical charactor of latter-day Radicalism.

A severe fight took place over the eviction of a farmer at Kanturk, Boiling water, rod-hot irons, and live coals were showered on tho bailiff and his assistant.

' The jury returned a verdiot of insanity in tbe cubb of Mrs Maude, who committed suicide this week. Showas the daughter-in-law of Genoral Maude, formerly Equerry to the Prince of Wales.

New York, November 20. An Irish Revolution Society has been formed in Amerioa to supersede the Clan-mi-gael. , Lisbon, November 19. A bomb was exploded at the residence of the President of the Beoeption Committee formed to welcomo the King and Queen of Portugal on their return from a visit to Spain; Fortunately no one was harmed. : Sydney, November 21. I The Sydney meat-preserving works ut at Kookwood have been destroyed by *t> fire. The damago is estimated at £BOO, and the insurances amount to £12,000. The destruction of the works has thrown a large number of persons out of employment. Bishop Montgomery, of Tasmania; has returned from his - visit to tho Islands. As tho result of the trip his views on the Kanaka; labour trafiio' have undergone a decided ohange, Formerly he regarded the traffic as an unmixed evil, and little better than slavery, but intimate observation has led him to the contrary belief, and ho tbiuks the labour traffio as now carried out by the British will do more good than evil, Melbourne, November 21. At the Rifle Association meeting Lieut, Eales won the Grand Aggregate Match, with a score of 289.

Mrs Harding,"wko was shot by Johnatone, at Ballarat, dead. The sacrifice ofohild-life is pro-. ceeding at an alarming rate, and the discovery of infants' bodies is adailyocpurrence. .*■ Adelaide, November 21, Sir William Jervois'was thrown from a trap at Wellington and ren» dered unconscious, but it is not believed that he has sustained any injury beyond a severe shaking, Melbourne, November 20. The police are in possession of a bold scheme to rob tho customers of the City banks. The detectives' watched tho various banns yesterday. Brisbane, November 20. ■ Tho recruiting vessels find there is a great demand for employment amongst tho Islanders, who are anxious to return to Queensland. A vosbol arrived on Saturday with 90, \ including 42 who had previously worked in the colony, One mission ■ station in tbe New Hebrides is prao- ,'■ tioally deserted.

The officers of H.M.B. Warspite, ; which went ashore on the western, coast of America, have been acquitted on the graver charge, but reprimanded for the minor offenoe of carelessness.' - St. Petebsbubg, November 20. Villagers in Brest-Lltovsk, Bussiair Poland, murdered ten horse stealers, hacked'their bodies with eoythes, and tbrew.the.remains into afire.

Count Tolstoi predicts a terribla 'famine in Russia. He states that the rye harvest is a partial and tha oats an.absolute failure. RoMEjTovomber 19. ' Tho trial is proceeding at Palermo of two prißonera accused, of having poisoned a -priest by putting poison in the ohalioe used at •''.'■ Paris, November 19. The city bankers are, it is alleged, paying a large sum to the Anarchists to secure, exemption from, attack ia dynamite outrages.