CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4442, 13 June 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign.

London, June 10.

'White, who was arretted on suapioion of being connected with tho robbery of jewellery belonging t" the Countess of Flanders, has been discharged from custody, , ADundee whaler reports having dis-> coyorod land in latitude 65 south and longitude 63 west.

A number of Irishmen have been appointed a deputation to wait on Mr Gladstone to represent to him that undue concessions are being granted to the Unionists, and urging him to press on tho measure more rapidly. Mr Sexton, MP. for Korty North, has resigned his seat iu the House of Commons, owing to disputes chiefly with Meosrs tletly and Dillon over the management of the Frtieinan's Journal. Mr Sexton's resignation has caused much dismay with the irish Prrcy, Seventy deaths from cholera wero reported at Mecca on-Friday. The plague i'b also extending in tho French provinces. Great preparations are being made to meet any outbreak in England. The medical officers have had their holidays stopped. Washington, June 10. It is stated that 200 people were buried in the ruins of the old Ford's Theatre, used as tho offices of the Ponsion Department, Three hundred wore in the building when it co"apsed, but a portion of the floors remained mtaot, tbus enabling many to escape, while others jumped from the wiudows. The number of killed is estimated to be under 50. Tho building had been condemned as unsafe, but was preserved from a roason of sen* timent, it being the Bcene of the murder of President Lincoln by Wilkes Booth in April, 1865, The cries of thoso buried by the collapse were most appalling. Tho three floors fe!'. in rapid succession, and the dead were horribly mutilated. The cavalif, who were early on tho scene, were eucceisu''. in extricating a number of those within the building. The collapse it attributed to tho underworks having been removed for the purpe of the installation of electricity. A hundred of the occupants of the upper floors wed themselves by jumping on to the adjoining roof.

Berlin, Juno 11, Of the eeven anarchists arrested in Loipsic on a charge of circulating; papers inoiting to the murder of the Kaiser, three wero acquitted and the others were found Guilty' and sentenced to terms of topiwmnwnt varying from one {.a eight years,.

Sydney, JuneU.

Archer, a groom, has been sentenced! to death on a chargo of murdering. Misa Harrison. This raurdor caused a great sensation in Sydney some time ago, when I the wha resided in tho Varna house, a 5. and his wife, was found id.Wl in b:d, having apparently been out ■ raged and strangle. . Heavy rain has been falling on the cot it and the northern rivers are in flood, -.

'. The branch oi the Australian Joint Stock Bank at Congo, near Orangej has been broken into by three masked men, The man! gar to stunned, and one of th'»men kept guard against' Biirprise, While the others forced open • the safe, The robbera got away with notes and