CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4322, 18 January 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

January 16. Sir Henry Fletcher Yane has commenced proceedings against Lord Barnard to obtain possession of the of Cleveland's estates. Tho new Oriental Bank lias paid a final dividend of Is in the £, Brussels, January 16. News has beeu received that a truinload of dynnmito exploded at Maiadi on the Congo, resulting in the death of 50persons, including Belgian (officers, Washington, January IG. Intense cold experienced in tho United Missouri the thermometer has been below zero for a month. A blizzard has devastated lowa, and many wrecks have taken placo on . the west coast.

London, January 16. There is cold weather all over Europe. Hamburg is ice-bound, and skating has been renewed in England, The Kev. Mr Collins, of Birmingham, haabcen appointed to Ponsonby, Auckland, evicted tenants in Ireland commit outrages unless they arc^JHstatcd. ' Cairo, January IG. Tho Khpdive is about to dismiss his Premier, Fobmi Pasha, on the ground that he is opposed to reforms. Brisbane, January 17. The Sugar Journal says the season's crop shows an increase of 10,000 tons on the previous year. Ottawa, January IG. A company has applied to Parliament for power to construct a canal to connect Lake Erie with Montreal and New York. Tho canal is io be provided with locks, and the proposed route is along Luk 1 ; Ontario and the River St. Lawrence as far as Lake St. Lewis, where it Ml branch off along tho Hudson Eiver to New York. The length will be about 700 miles,