CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4477, 22 July 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign London, July 20, Earl Jersey lias been offered tlio chairmanship of the Agriculture Conference, The carriage in which Mr Gladstone was driving in Parliament Square collided with a van, but the Premier auO'ered no injury. He was warmly congratulated by members on his narrow escape, Calcutta, July 20. China is assembling a strong force on the Turkestan frontier, with a view to defending the Pamirs. St. Petersborg, July 20. A Berious outbreak of cholera is reported from Moscow. The epidemic is still raging in Pondolia, and exists in eight other provinces. New York, July 20, The panic in Denver city over tho silver crisis is subsiding. Altogether eight banks and nine mercantile houses failed, Capetown, July 20, A serious rising is reported among ilia natives in tho vicinity of Fort Victoria, and the whites aro retiring to the latter place to defend it agains'« the rising of King Lobengula, 0 f Matabelelancl, A later telegram, however, contains the reassuring intelligence that King Lobengula is not unfriendly towards the whites. Sydney, July 20. , The steam collier Hilda struck a reef off Port Hacking. She was coal Men, and going at full speed at the time. The vessel sank in two minutes. The crew were saved. Eio de Janiero, July 20. During tho month of Juno tho death rate from yellow fever at Santos was 200 per day. A large numb rof bodies were never buried and corpses were to be Been floating in tie river. Forty-five sailing vessels are lying idle, the captains of nearly half of them having succumbed to the epidemic. Sydney, July 20. The Press Association correspondent in New Hebrides writes that though there is distress among the people, it is not bo great as iimicipa'ted; still it is real enough. The yam crop was never so large, and that in Ambryn waagonerally saved, though the mission crop, near the sea, perished, Despite their hardships the people are in fairly good health- The residents desire to publicly express their thanks to the whole mission party, and for the sympathy and liberality displayed by New Zealand. Scarlet fever, almost amounting to an epideinio iu its proportions, is prevalent, in the riie ; npolis. ' ' Hobart, July 22. . The greatest floods since 1852 have been reported along the Launceston line,' and. the : people in the lower part pf Longford have been compelled to leave tbeir resideaces. 'l'be loss of etook is yery heavy,

they will bo found on tlin samo sido as (ho Daily, whan those who BlioiiW moYo take tlio initiative Thanking you for your fcai loss advoCjßcy. —I am, etc,, ■' I'ateii. Turaiabi, 20th July, 1898.