CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4296, 16 December 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, December 14.

The deaths are announced of Sir John Bernard Burke,L.L.D., Ulster King at Arms, the celebrated writer on heraldry; and of Willie Ueckwith, the well-known swimmer. Tlio site of the Milbank Prison is to bo offered for sale by auction.

Messrs Lipman k Company, of Dundee, jute merchants, have failed, with liabilities amountiog t0£250,000 sterling, v

The proprietors of the Piok-Me-Up newspaper have been fined 10s for a breach of the Lottery Act, and it is expected this decision will stop all " missing words" competitions. Paymaster Rice Harris, of H.M.S, Hymphe, has been sentenced to 18 months' bard labour ior falisfying accounts and stealing £2OOO. An. explosion has occurred in a colliery at Banlurlin?, in Wigan. One hundred men are entombed in the mine,

At the wool sales, faulty and burry wools aro neglected, and prices are weak all round. A large number of bales have been withdrawn. Australian shipments brought from 8d to la lid per lb, City merchants consider the proposal to grado butter shipped in the colonies will bo fruitless, as tbe voyage alters the value of the article, The Agents-General have requested the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company to bring the increased tariff: into oporation on tho Ist January. Berlin, December 13.

Prince Bismarck, in the course of an interview with a Parisian journalist, is reported to have suggested' an alliance between France and Germany and the latter inducing a war between Russia and England over the Balkans question, ■ Bucharest, December 13,

Prince Ferdinand of Roumania, who is betrothed to Princess Mane of Edinburgh, is agreeing to the children being educated in tho Catholio Faith ii the Pope will grant a dispensation for the marriage.

New York, December 14,

News has been received that 1000 Yakin Indians have opened war on the whites in Mexico, and are burnhouiesteads. k wealthy Spaniard and bis two sons have been killed, besides six others. Five hundred soldiers have been sent in pursuit of the Indians,

Washington, December 14,

Otber deaths at tbo Homestoad lmvo been traced to poison, Enquiries made,'and on analysis oftbe powder introduced into the food showed it bad a fatal result,

Sydney, December 14,

Nathan has been soutonced to nine months' imprisonment in connection with the Australian Banking Company prosecution. Melbourne, December 14,

Two viotims of the land boom have failed, the deficiency in the two estates aggregating £IOO,OOO. Sydney, December 14.

Further charges against the Makins are being investigated before the Coroner, and again a distressing scone occurred, through the daughter Blanche acousing her father of not looking after mother, adding, " Wo have told enough lies to screen you. and through telling lies no are here," The father met the remarks with defiant jeers,