CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4288, 30 November 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

4f London, November 27, Fifty artillerymen stationed at . Limeriok rioted and smashed the windows of houses. The police were powerless to quell the disturbance, The premises of Jenner and Company, drapers, Princess-street, Edinburgh, have been destroyed by fire, The damage is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling, The Daily News asserts that complaints are mad') of tho excessive credit demanded by Australian soft goods firms and that the leading Loudon firms are resolved to cease business with the colonists if more than six months credit is asked for, Tho Nows also states that during the re. cent financial panic the large banks in Melbourne benefited by it, The damage caused by the fire at . the London and East India Docks is estimated at L 30.000. Two thousand bales of Australian wool, which were stored in the warehouse in which the outbreak occurred were damaged by 1 j water, „4' Mr J, Eigby, Solicitor-General, has been knighted. The Government havo accepted Mr Tato's offer to build a National Art Gallery. They offer the site formerly occupied by Milbank Prison, The London County Council is expediting various works for the benefit of the unemployed, The Daily Chronicle says the colonies have not been so prompt or so gonerous towards tho Imperial Institute as was hoped, The paper advocates the absorption of tho Colonial Institute. Svdney, November 28. Tho coroner's jury in tho alleged baby-farming case at Macdonaldtown returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Mr and Mrs Makin, A pathetic scono ocourred in Court during tho day. Mis Makin, after exhorting her children not to cry, and imploring God for justice, fell prostrate on the floor. ' Tho inquest on the bodies found at g Redforn opens on Wednesday, Those -Mi aro tho cases in which it ia believed the children wcro murdered by puncturing their hearts, November 29. Tho R.M.S, Alameda has on board specie to ths value of £IOO,OOO, and 250 tons of exhibits for the Chicago Fair. Brisbane. November 29, Men lost on tho way to the Jiatavia Kiver rush, have been raoued through their cutting the telegraph wires. Meluourne, Novonibor 28, Tho police are of opinion that the Hawthorn mystery is something moro than a practical joke. Medical men are of opinion that the legs were cat off whilo tho body was warm, November 29. A man named Pender was arrested on tho charge of stabbing his wife, and was subsequently admitted' to bail. He followed his wife to Eutherglen, entered his house, and shot her and a roan named Hourigan. . Both the victims were dangerously wounded, but effected their escape, ► Pender removed his children, and then Bet firo to his house, He has been ro-arrested, Domestic infelicity csaid to havo beon the causo of the trouble.