CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4294, 14 December 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, December 12,

Tho death is announced of the Hon W. H, doss, Conservative M.P. for West Derby Division of Liverpool, The Daily Chronicle states ibat the Government will shortly adopt penny postage, Copenhagen, December 12.

Five dwellings in Copenhagen were destroyed by fire, and' six persons, inoluding three children, burnt to death.

Guno, December 12,

It is reported that the Madhi is collecting 40,000 troops to attack Egypt in tho Bpr-iiig. Home, December 12,

Several European sovereigns will make gifts to the Pope on the occasion of his jubilee, Sydney, December 12.

A man named Mace committed a sensational suioide by' jumping from the South Head into The Gip. Tho Port Darwin telegraph lino is interrupted, In tbo sculling race to-day at M'Lean, Crossp, who concodod Sullivan two lengths, defeated him by a similar distance. Washington, December 12, Dalziel's Agenoy publishes a telegram stating that a cook who supplied Carnegie's free labourers at Homestead poisoned their food, the result being that forty men are dead and sixty others are in a dying state, The cook and nine others have been arrested, The strikers aro said to have promised fte cook 6000 dollars to poison sufficient hands to compel tho mill to bo closed, An accomplice informod the manager.

It is further stated that tho cook has confessed.