CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4308, 31 December 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■ London, December 29. Five hundred, passengers are on board the missing steamer Umbria, but tbß agents are confident the ves sel will turn up. A severo frost is being experienced in Great Britain, and four deaths from exposure are reported. Numerous skating acoidents are also reported, and the fatalities number 80.

It is thought likely that Mr W. B. Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand; will bo one.of those selected for decoration at the bands of Her Mojtßtv at the New Year,

Wr Julius. Vogel, in uu orticle in tbe Fortnichtly Review, ailvisesEtiglatld to adopt the laud laws ill Operation in New Zealand, and extend the franchise to women.

The funeral of Sinnott took place to- day, ami was enormously ait> ndd, Iheiv was a great public expression of sorrow ai his untimely dea'li. Mr Gladstone, who. is'ai Biariitz, on hearing of the Dublin outraue, declined it to' lie both unaccountable and idintio,

The Daily Chroniole announoes that it is proposed to form a union of British capitalists, with an segregate capital of £200,000,000 sterling, to endeavour to boycott Trades Unions. The meetings of unemployed at Tower Hill have olosed,

A number of philanthropists and zealous supporters of the poor declare that after oareful enquiry tbey find there is no general took of employment, in London, but that much distress exists among shipbuilders, engineers, and dockers. They are appealing for charitable funds to supplement the remuneration received by the unemployed from the work ptovided by local bodies,

In consequenoe, of the recent outrage all houses in Dublin are being searched in an endeavour to traoe the : culprits. New Yobk, December 29. While some persons wero engaged thawing frozen dynamite cartridges before a fire in a tunnel in course of construction in Long Island City, an ' explosion occurred, destroying ilie tunnel and wrecking the Post Office. Hooses within a radius of a mile were severely shaken, furniture being injured, and almost all the windows being broken, Six men and tee women were killed, while 18 other persons wero injured. Ooemanlying on a sofa, had his throat cut by falling glass, and instances are mentioned where others lost arms, or had eyes gonged out, • A dynamite bomb was thrown against a Milwaukee street railway station, wrecking it and the plant wiihin,.the damage being estimated at half-a-millioh dollars. London, December 28, Telegrams from the Continent state that cholera is again increasing in Warsaw, Hamburg, nnd Brest, and fears are entertained that it will oxtend. St, Petersburg, December 29, . ■ Charges against the leadora of oholera riots still continues, and eight of those who took a prominent part in ueTauhkend trouble in July-hare b\n sentenced to death by strangula tionV \ Sidney, December 80. Many ihoiibands of acr< s of grass and wbeat lia've been destroyed by fire in the Albany, districts, and in some ousei, live stock, houses, and fencing have v alfio been. burn?. Several selectors have been ruined, Newcastle, December 80. Mr. Mathisoii, cliief officer of the ship Port Glasgow, wak killed instantaneously by a block'"falling pn him from aloft. \ ' .