CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4468, 12 July 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign,

London, July li

Lord Brassey is calling attention to the dangers of big ironclads in the Navy, and urges the construction of more torpedo rams of the type of H.M.S. Polyphemus, one of the vessels of the Mediterranean squadron.

Probate has been granted of the will of the late Sir James Anderson, whose estate is valued at £OO,OOO. Broadwood, the bead of the wellknown piano manufacturing firm, is dead.

The Premier has consented to appoint a Royal Commission to en* quire into the condition'of agriculture. Madrid, July 9. The roads in the province of Mureia are strewn with corpses, victims to the cholera, Ottawa, July 0. Thirteen thousand Catholics in 1 Montreal attempted to demolish the rotunda of the Protestant missionaries, owing to the latter stigmatising them as idolatora, Information, however, had been sent beforehand to the authorities, and a body of police and riflemen were on guard, Many of the rioters were injured, and a number were arrested. New York, July 10. A storm on Lake Michigan caused the destruction of a number of boats, and damaged a portion of the Chicago Exhibition buildings, Thirty persons were drowned, and the storm waß of auck a violent char" acter that it caused a panic amongst vißitorß to the Exhibition. Btdkey, July 10. The Coroner's Court coated for trial the members of the larrikin gaag who were arrested for the murder of the man Pert, who was kicked to death, The Tarella rousabouts demand 80s per week instead of 255, which they had signed an agreement for. ■ A boy named Bryson, aged 15, living near Hay, quarrelled with a man nomed Smith, who bad chastised him for ill-treating a dog, The boy rushed into a tent, procured agun and shot Smith dead. The lad has been smelted,