GABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4288, 7 December 1892, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

London, Decombor fi, Owing to tho improvement in the condition of affairs reported from South Africa many mining and land companies been registered to operate in that country. The newspapers publish thrilling details of the narrow escape that the Atlantic steamer Spree, which broke her shaft, had of foundering. The Spree, which was bound from Bremen to New York, broko her propeller 700 miles off tho coast, and drifted about in a helpless stato for two days, The passengers, among whomwasMr Moody, the evangelist, were rescued by passing vessels. Hongkong, December 5, A fearful outrage has been committed by Tonquin pirates, They captured 80 women and children and imprisoned them in a cave, announcing that they would bo set at liberty on payment of ransom by their friends.

Police were sent in pursuit, and on the pirates learning this, they suffocated the whole of tho captives by burning charcoal in the cave, tbe entrance to which had been securely closed. St. Petersburg, December 5. _ Tiventy-threo of those taking part in the cholera riots in Saratov have been senteuced to death. Vienna, December 5. Louis Kossuth, the aged Hungarian patriot, is seriously ill, Paris, December 5, Tbe Anarchists threaten to destroy with dynamite the residences of tho English Judges who heard the charge against the Anarchist if'rancois, and ordered bis oxtradition to Franco. Melbourne, December (i.

Tho trial of the directors of tho Anglo-Austia'inn Banking Company has begun. The Crown Prosecutor, in his opening address, stated that the institution was started in 1888 with £3710s capital, but by means of fiotitions transactions in land the accused made it appear that the Bank had a paid-up capital of £IOO,OOO and a magnificent reserve fund. ■ Melbourne, November fi. The police havo received an extraOrdinary letter from a tap, Btating that the limbs recently found in a public pnrk belonged to a fellowtramp who died of heart disease, and who requested his mate to.ohop his body to bits, so as to render the holding o! an inquest.impossible. The B toi'y, towever, is dieoroditei, .