CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4465, 8 July 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign

London, July 6, Tlio men who were rescued from the mine in Thornhill are dying. Tho entombed miners chalked forewells on iho side of the pit when they krsw all chance of rescue was gone. Up to the present ninety-eight bodies have been recovered. When tho ten men who were rescued alive wero brought out of the mine, their relatives were almost frantic with joy, and most affecting scenes were wituessed. Sydney, July C.

Ten seamen from the steamer City of Gr.iftnn have each been sentenced to 14 days imprisonment for leaving tlio vessel, Four others were discharged on a technical point. more arrests have been m-ide for refusing to work. A unionist nnmod Olson, who In company with others assaulted a journalist, has been sent to gaol for six months,

Au attempt was made last night to sink tho steamer Wendoureo by scuttling her, the circular pump door heingopened and the valves unscrewed. The engine-room was fall of water before the outrage was discovered. Engineer Burrumbeet dived down and shut the door, thus saving tho vessel. The strikers are suspected of being the prime movers in tho affair. New York, July 5.

Three hundred and fourteen of th ilver mines io the Shte of Coloradoe have berni closed down in consequence of the silver crisis. WABUINOTON, July 0. Nowg from Honolulu states tint a

dynamite conspiracy has been discovered there. Walker, Sinclair and Crick, the promoters, liive been arrested, and twenty prominent men, excluding nine ex-ministers, aro said to be implicated, Constantinople, July C. An English vessel from Marseille lias been quarantined here with three cases of cholera on board, Sydney, July G. As a mark of clemency on the occneion of a marriage of the Duko of York, the Executive has approved the release of the Broken Hill strikers.