CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4336, 4 February 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, February 2. There is on epidemic of smallpox in Manchester. The hospitals are crowded. The Bills to cnforco labelling and regulate the sale of iorsign and colonial meat and fruit have been introduced to the House of Commons and read the first time. Mr Arnold White asserts the Khedive's anti-English action was instigated by the French. The Court of Queen's Bench Ims decided that Mr -lolin Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is liable to be criminally prosecuted for iraiing an order refusing to allow the police to protect 1119 sheriffs while executing writs at night, Paris, February 2, The Fronch Government proposes to occupy Shiek Said, opposite the ialaj&flf Ferim, at the entrance to Brussels, February 2, The city of Brussels is considering !> tbo advisability of constructing a cinal to the sea at a cost of two millions and a half sterling. The Premier prefers to connect the city with Bruges. Si, Petersburg, February 2. The Czar has declined the offer of the Emir of Bokhara to sell his State for a pension of five millions, Paris, February 2, The survivors of the ship Thekla, who killed and ate one of their number, have been arrested. Washington, February 2, A band of womon lynchers in Tex«s tortured a negro with hot irons, kerosene, and lire, for outraging a child. A committee of the Senate of the Ne:v York Legislature propose to introduce a Bill limiting the prhe o'v * Another has bnmi experienced in Erffijund wasabo felt at Cephalonia, the largest of the lonian Group. Further damago whs i done, H.M. warships Camperdown and Dreadnought are convoying succour to the sufferers. Washington, February 2, Mr Bayard, the well-known politician, holds that tbo annexation of Hawaii is tbo logical result of the policy of the Republic, which enjoys virtual supremacy over the country OwiDg to the treatiso of 1887. The Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Washington Stato Legislatures have carried resolutions in favour of the annexation of Hawaii by the United States.

Ottawa, February 2, Sir J. Thompson, Premier of CaTfrdft is exchanging telegrams with the Mprinl Government urging the itu'jffirtance of Hawaii in connection with a cablo to Australia, He has been assured that the British Government are on the alert. Brisbane, February 2. Tremendous rains have fallen throughout the north, 23 inches bc» ing registered in 24 hours atYeppoon, Heavy floodß have already occurred at Gympie, and the main Btreet m i feet under water. The river is G or 1 feet ahovo its ordinary level, and is etill rising. At Brisbane the river is rising rapidly, and is within 10 feet of the level of the great flood of 1890. A heavy gale is rasing along the seaboard,