CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4286, 5 December 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, December 2. jr The London County .Council is ■Purging tho Government to introducea Bill to form London into one great municipality. Mr Labouchere has been formally reconciled to Mr Gladstouo, the difficulty raised by his exclusion from office having been smoothed over.

The man Williams has been com- " mitted for trial for tho murder of two lovers on Dartmoor.

The Scotland Yard officials, who Me taking an interest in tho mysterious discovery of human limbs in Melbourne, do not believe the Jack the Ripper theory, but will not move in the matter unless requested to do so by tho Melbourne authorities, A thousand unemployed assembled at Tower Hill at midnight and marched to the West End, whore speeches of n violent character were delivered. Tbe procession was a lnrmless affair, tho police having forbidden the men to carry torches.

At the wool sales tho bidding is spirited, and prices are very firm, -rWew South Wales consignments arc Jf fetching 8-Jd to Hid. Many quarters of beef by the Otarama, although of bright appearauce externally, were found to be quite putrid near the bone, Melbourne, December 8.

In connection with (he Hawthorn mystery, a Sydney resident named Wilson is reported to be missing, He was assaulted and robbed, and gave a man in charge for the offence. At the trial Wilson did not appoar to prosecute, and a warrant was issued tor his arrest as an unwilling witness, but he was never found.

The police have received two anonymous letters concluding with the words" Beware of Jaclt-thc-Ripper," Kingston, the well-known New Zealand champion cyclist, died to-day from injuries caused by a fall, a dog Laving collided with Kingston's bicycle.

Beiiun, December 2. A movement is on loot in the Reich'

ctag to bring about a conference bo» tho' great Powers to secure -Neutrality of private vessels in tho event of war. New York, December 2. Jay Gould has succumbed to his illness. Washington, December 2. Mr James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of tho New York Herald, will probably be appointed United States Minister in Paris. A Convention sitting at New Orleans has passed a resolution favouring the Nicaragua Ship Canal, on the ground that it would double trade, lessen the distance by sea between New York and Bau Francisco by 10,000 miles, and attract Oriental trade,