CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4405, 28 April 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, April 25. Mounted police Lave been de< epatohed from London to Hull to as*, list in maintaining order,,Tho Home Secretary declares that.it is the intenf' tion of tho Government to withdraw tbe naval and military-forces, from; Hull.

An attempt to set fire to the timber, yard at Queen's Dock, Hull, by means of petroleum, has been defeated, and also an attempt to set fire to the ship Goolo, which was being worked by free labourers.

An endeavour was made, without avail, to dynamite a railway bridge at the moment a train was passing, laden with free labourers,' _ , Tlia.Bh) Aog Federation is sending £OO free labourers to Liverpool 1 and Hull. The Australian team of. cricketers > have arrived in excellent health. Lord Sheffield is arranging to extend to them a splendid welcome, and is dO' termined to return the hospitality shown to the team taken by him to Australia.

Bkussels, April 26. The Labour Party in Belgium bold a demonstration on May Ist in favour Of an eight hours day, Bvdney,;April 26;

A strange story comes from Noumea by a French mail steamer. A small teasel, named tho Harold, which was reported missing," took shelter ~ near Noumea during a gale, and reports that while off Elizabeth, reef,, and driving before a terrific storm, she passed a wbaleboat containing about twenty men, looking like castaways. Xho Harold was unable to render the little craft any assistance, and no news has been received as to whether aseißtanca has been ser|t of not. ; ; Two large-vessels, natoed the Friars Colwyn, are vmisaing, bounotoAmerican ports from Nowcastle, and it is thought, that' the castaways may have been the crew of One of these vessels. .