CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4354, 25 February 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

9 London, February 22, H A further battory of artillery has B boon ordered to Egypt. I Fobruaiy 23. I The Government Liquor Veto Bill |i ' gives power to a two-thirds mnjority if of tho ratepayers to veto tbo issue of J now licenses, and lo a baro majority [ to irfc on Sunday closing. O'Donovnn Rospa oxprews tho , opinion that Mr Gladstone's Bill will i not satisfy tho Irish, It is rumoured that iho Irish Unionist organisations are purchasing arms. New Youk, February 22. A terrific snow blizzard has been experienced* in the Eastern and Middle States, and railway traffic is impeded, Paris, February 23. Tho Chamber of Deputies has passed the Bill empowering a cable to bo laid from New Caledonia lo Queensland, ViF/fy, February 22. An explosion has taken placo in a Iflino in Skalilz owing to (hero being no air shaft. Fifteen minors wore hilled, The Government have taken steps to close the mine. Cholera is raging in tho Russian provinces near tho Austrian frontier, nnd 1000 cases are under treatment, Four hundred deaths wero recorded for tbo month during 7th February. Rome, February 28. Uno hundred and four member of the Malta Yi'a Society have beon sentenced to terms ranging from six years' imprisonment. Si Petersburg, February 22. Owing to tho poll tax imposed by ' rntneut i 5 0,000 people have homes and will leave A quartor of a million peoplo aro starving in Finland. Pektu, February 21, A small vessel, name unknown, foundered near Roebuck Bay. One man was saved and live were drowned. Sydney, February 23. Sir George Dibbs expresses himself satisfied with tho appointment of the Hon. Robert W. Duff as Governor of New South Wales. Sir Saul Samuel ciblos that Mr Duff is well qualified for the position.