CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4400, 31 July 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign, London, July 28. News has been received that Sir Gerald Portal, British Oonrnissioner in Uganda, after starting for the coast was urgently recalled to Uganda, owing to the unsatisfactory behaviour of the Mohammedan party. A million sterling in gold has keen shipped from London !o New Yorli, and there is a prospect of more being sent, The New York Exchange is less excited. Further bank and oilier failures are reported throughout tho United States, New Youk, July 28. News from Central America states that the Nicaragua rebels have captured Managua, the capital of tho country. New Yobk, 27th July. A horrible scene took place at an electrocution in a New York prison. Tho current failed, and the man revived. I'lio doctor administered chloroform, and having replaced him [ in the chair, switched on a current from a city lamp-post, I Monte Video, 27th July, 1 The first batch of 40 Australians i. from Queensland, ou' their way to 8 the new settlement in Paraguay, t arrived yesterday, t Brisbane, 28th July, e _ The steamer Arumnc, whicharrived b from Sydney to»day, reports that it when she was boiween Point Danger i, and Point Look-Out, early this e morning, a terrific explosion ocoured, n Flames shot op through the forea cabin companion ways, tho berths on d one side were completely wreoked, s and the bulkheads were partly y thrown down, Inspection showed that n a dynamite cartridge had exploded d under tin occupied berth. There is no '8 clue to tho authorship of the exe plosion, t One or two persons wereinjured by o tho explosion, hut their wounds are I. not serious, The tire was quickly h extinguished, The cartridge was a 3, large one, made of tin and canvas tt Fortunately no one was sleeping in i. the immediate vicinity of theoxj, plosion. ' e It is believed that the dynamite a was secreted when the vessel was in :e Sydney, as some strangers were seen ly to leave her hurriedly there, n The Aramac was recently atuoli up ct at Adelaide through the crew leaving her. it A number of ladies on the Aramac •y were thrown from tlioir boi the, and a, in tbs most marvellous payQscaped

f injury, Iho passengers had a lively ■ experience, and were unable to reach i the deck owing to the passages being , blocked with delris; The oahiu I furnituro was smashed to pieces,