CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4309, 4 January 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, January 2,* Skating fatalities continue, and in the last four days 82 persons have beon drowned in England. The Marquis of Salisbury has reduced the rents of his tenants 20 percent, A loiter in tho Ohroniolo states that the Cambridge University is teaching colonial history in the local lectures.

. The London School Board is discussing the propriety of introducing free dentistry for tho scholars, Tho new British coinage will be issned in January, Mr Tim Henley, addressing a meeting at Nowcastle, declared that the Irish people would refuse to accept in the Heme Rule Bill anv olanso similar lo that in Mr Gladstone's Bill of 188G, providing for taxing Ireland in proportion to onc-fifteonth of Great Britain. A Pamellite and Anti-Pamellito riot took place lust night at Kilrush, County Clare. Several houses were wrecked and a number of persons injured, Many arrests were effected, PAius,Deconiberßl, Tho excess of deaths over births in France for 1891 was 10,000, and would have been 19,000 but for the excess of births over deaths shown among the foreign residents,

All the malcontent soctions in Paris are very active and there is great public uneasiness, A manifesto has been issued urging Anarchists to take to the streets and twist tho necks of all bou rgrois capitalists. The Socialists have issued an appeal to the working classes to assist iu tho revision ot the Constitution of France in a manner which will check the turpitude of the existing regime. It is behoved tint Corato do Paris has wired to Hie Due d'Orleans to return from Africa. A serious outbreak of cholera is reported at Qruvcliues, a small seaport 10 miles west of Dunkirk.

Oaiko, January 2, Four hundred Dervishes attempted to raid the village of Gemai, and were repulsed with threo killed. Afterwards thoy attacked Fort Savais, and wore again repulsed, They are now retreating, and aro being pursued by cavalry. .. '■ St Petersburg, January 2. Twenty persons connected with the cholera riots in Astrachan have been sentenced to death.

Madrid, January 2. The Princess Isabella will represent Spain at the Chicago Exhibition, New York, December 31.

Tho Umbrin bos arrived here with a broken shaft. An attempt to tow her failed, and the shaft, was repaired. She experienced terrible gales, The s.s, Gallia, after sighting the fimbria in a disabled condition, proceeded on her voyage, having misunderstood tho signals, Sydney, January 2, Owing to the rains causing sleepers to slip, an engine on the Blayney lino foil over an embankment, Willoughby the driver was killed and the fireman and several passengers injured. The breakage of the couplings saved the train from total destruction,

London, January 2,

Cotton operatives wbo did not take part in the recent strike lost in wages tho sum of £200,000. The unemployed filled St, Paul's, They behaved themselves in an orderly manner, Numerous plain clothes constables were present in the Cathedral, and a detachment in 'uniform was in cobcclment. The men aftorivurds attempted to meet at tho entrance, but the police prevented them, They sang the" Marseillaise," and subsequently a procession was formed and marched through the streets,

Berlin, January 2,

Ten thousand miners aro rioting ot StMibruok. Thoy are being incited iy Anarchists. St. Petersburg, January 2.

Two million and a half of the Russian peasantry aro unemployed; The Government propose to remove population from tlie congested districts, with a view of granting relief.