CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4290, 9 December 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, Decowber 7. V lawyer's clerk, in Edinburgh, ntfOTfe Alexander Smith, was arrested on a charge of forging a lartje number of letters alleged to be by Burns, Macaulay, and Scott, Some bad been sold at enormous prices, Fifteen hundred delegates will be present to-morrow at a conference to consider the best means of dealing with tho agricultural depression. Mr Justice Collins fined Sir Homy Ticbborae, the High Sheriff, 600 guineas for being absent from tho Winchester Assizes. He is away shooting in Africa. Canadian athletes are making objections to Americans being allowed to compete in the Pan-Britannic contests, Mr ABtley Cooper.tbo original promoter of tho competitions, propoW that wiauere of Pritisb aud colo-

uial contesla should compete agains Americans.

A Norwegian barque has been wrecked on the Mersey bar, eighteen of those on board being drowned.

At the wool sales there iB fair competition. Faulty sorts are neglected, and a largo quantity was withdrawn, Australian, 6§d to 9d. Melbourne, December 7.

Staples, Dilby, Haroldson, and Norwood, directors of tho AngloAustralian Bank, wcro committed for trial. The body of a hospital patient, from which it was supposed that the limbs lately found bad been taken, was exhumed, and found to be intact. Adelaide, December 8, A vessel which has arrived here touched at Tristan d'Acnnbn, the principal of three islands in the South Atlantic nearly midway botween Africa and America, and reports that the crew of the barque Italia, which was bound from Greenock to Gapetown witii a cargo of coal had landed on the island tho barque having been destroyed by fire. Sydney, December 7. Tho steamer Port Pirie arrived at Newcastle to-day to load frozen meat, but the wharf labourers struck for Is (id per hour, Caiuo, December 7. Tho Jlahdi has sent a force to attack Kassala and reinforce Osman Digna, who is supposed to be meditating an attack on 'Mar. Capetown, December 6. The Tongariro left to-day for Hobart and Wellington.