CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4414, 10 May 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

MaySYv;' ■:;An7attempfto ; set .fire- to tho Oil ' Compauy's tanks at Hull was defeated, and also; an' attempt to wreck three trains conveying fye labourers,'-." ■ : ; : The ; Times states that a deliberate attempt was made to destroy, the town of Hull by fire. : ",; v f. -mJ? -In connection with the explosion of a dynamite bomb at the Dublin Law Courts, the Chief of the Polico states (bathe expected the explosion, but lias not given any reason for, tho anti. cipation. .'■' .:/•.;■'" ■;:'■':■;■;.'■■ A Dublin paper was found in the yard marked " The last ; The Trades Union procession-;.to Hyde Park was smaller than that of 1892, Resolutions denouncing the Home Rulo Bill as an impediment to labour legislation were carried. At the Hyde Park Meeting Mr Ben Tillett advocated great annual Eight Hours gatherings, In doing so, he said Australia had Bhown the world that tho fewest hours brought the most food and tho best houses arjd eduoation, London, Hay 8. The opening matoh of the tour of the Australian cricketers began to-day at Sheffield Park, when thoy met the olovon selected by Lord Sheffiod. The weather is fine, but windy, and the attendanco numbevs about 5000, The wicket is in perfect condition, being true and fast, Bannerman, Walter Qiffen, and Jarvis stood out of the Australian team, The Englishmen went first to the wicket, and at the luncheon adjournment had lost one wicket for 116 runs, tho scores : Graco, 0 Trumblo, b Coniugham 68 Shrewsbury, not out 80 Gunn, not out 18 Eztras i Graoe's score inoluding fourteen foars, and he knocked up fifty of his runs in half au hour.