CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4307, 30 December 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■■■■'■'— : (k London, December^ 1 The steamer Islam' bound' from Cardiff to Bombay has gone ashore at Cape Trafalgar, on the Spanish ooast, and it is feared she will become a rotal wreck, The orew were saved. The loss is estimated at £70,000. The Atlantic liners arrive covered with ice and their compasses frozen, The steamer Nordland' broke down during the gale and was drifting help- ; leasly, when her position was observed by a passing steamer and she was towed into Qucenstown. The total amount of money impounded in connection with the "missing word" competitions is £14,000, Meetings held throughout Roland have carried resolutions denouncing the dynamite outrage, Mr Gladstone's oflioial residence is surrounded by police. Paris, December 28. Dynamite cartridges found in the preoinots of the late Baron Eeinaoh'B houße failed to explode. . ■ Letters found in the Panama (tonal Company's office itnplicato Aiy members of the Chamber of Deputies, and disolosa the name of an Ambassador of high rank who Bold his support for 800,000 francs. ■ , New Yobk, December 27., Tho Cunard liner Umbria is two" days overdue, and grave anxiety for her safety is felt'owing to the severe gales reported in the Atlantic Ocean, Buenos Aybes, December 28. _ The rebels in the Corrientea Pro', sinoe hive, on two occasions defeated the Governor's local troops, to York, Deoember27; Bishop Porter to-day laid the corner stone of the Episcopal Cathedral in New York. The cost of the boilding is estimated at a million and a half dollars, and will oontain seven obapela, each with a distinct language, Emigrants who have not been welcomed in the United States an flooding into Mexioo, and the latter oountry has sent agents to Ireland, Germany, Italy, and .Sweden, with the view of discouraging people from emigrating. ! Deoember'ss, A terrible tragedy is reported from ' Worcester, in Massachusetts, whore a man killed his wife, mother-in-law, and daughter whilo asleep, by'scattering their brains with anironbar. .The man is said to hava beoome insane, owing to inability to'seoure work, After he committed the murders, hq stabbed himself in the breast, and died from tho injuries inflicted., ' Beblih, Deoember 27, A pamphlet, alleged to have been inspired by the German Government, states that Russia and France are able to put in the field 1,000,000 men and 1700 guns more than the countries composing the Triple Alliance, and that if the Army Bill now before the Reichstag is not accepted, all the essentials of the three years' service system will be continued. Si, Petersburg, December 27. A terrible famine is being experienced in North Finland, and the only food hundreds of the poorer class hayo to subsist on is bread mixedfch powdered bark. ™ The Kussian Government is making only meagre efforts to relieve the distress, and it is stated that folly 2000 persons are in quite a destitute condition. Bernk, December 27* The Kreuz Zeitung opposes an American being appointed to succeed Baron O. O. Oedercrantz as Chief Justice oi Samoa, on the grounds that half the white population there are Germans. . Brisbane, December 29, A oyclono at Normanton has demolished tho Catholic Cburob, and seriously damaged several private' buildings, •• Adelaide, December 29, While the mails by the Orubawere being fumigated on Monday, a portion of them oaught fire, and a number of packages wero destroyed before the flames were extinguished. The fire was caused by an escape of burning sulphur. SfDNEV, There isnow no doubt truths ketch Agnes Hose, ha been lost with: all hands, The captain's, sea-chest has been found on the coast.