CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4501, 19 August 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British wd Foreign '" ■ London. 17thAuguBt; Tho Standard announces that the Opposition Party has determined to render an autumn session impossible, United Ireland announces tliat Dr Gallagher, dynamiter, is to bo released.' ■ . >; ; '. .. ';• . The death is 'announced' of Dr Uharcofc-meinber of tho Institute of France, of tho Boyal Irish Academy, of the Boyal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, and of a great number of other soi»ntific societies in various countries. : Mr Chamberlain has informed the Government that tho Opposition are preparing a number of fresh amendments to blcok the reporting of the Home fiule Bill. Lancashire miners are begging from door to door. / . . About 180,000 hands3?e*idle in Wales. Thirty passenger trains on the Great Northern Hue had to be stopped owing to the dearness of coal, Owing to the scarcity of coal, the steamship pwnors are refusing chartera, and factories are stopping work in all directions, Despite the presence of the troop's, the Welou miners have olosed all the pits and terrorised the non-unionists. .. The Pall Mall Gazette is publishing some exposures, relative: to the , patents for cordite powder which refleot most gravely upon the oondnot j of Sir Frederiok Abel, the wellknown j military chemist, and Secretary to tho imperial Institute. Tho Times urges that carte ilanek should-.be.-given to tre.Cbartered ! Company in Mashonaland to laise sharpshooters iu Cape Colony to make headway against Lobengula. _ Thirteen deaths by boating or bathing acoideuts were reported from various parts of tho country yesterday. The season has been unusually prolifio in fatalities of this kind, The Australian M.P.'s intend to have a inepting with Mr Huddart, and hear his claims to a subvention for the Vancouver line.- ...-• .. . Washington, August 16. ' Three carriages and a sleeping oar dropped through a trestle bridge on a Virginian railway.' '.<;'• They foil 60 feet, and 1% passengers were killed, besides whiob many were injured.

ADELAn%AIIgUBt 10, Tho Legislative Uoufciktys passed the Bonus Bill, but inserted a new clause that the bonus shall not be paid till the butter, is landed at its destination iu a satisfactory condition. , San FmiioißCo,. August 17: As the outcome of the Ohicago Exhibition, it is proposed to hold a a midwinter exhibition: here'. Sydney, August 17, The Commandant recommends a reduction of the pay of the officers of the whole Force to'the standard of the Imperial army, The reductions being made in the pay in evory department would save £II,OOO annually, which could be devoted to holding an Easter encampment without extra coat to the oonntry. ;

; A military tournament, which it is behaved will bB the best over held in the Colony, is being arrayed for 12th ftnd 1 8th October. The competition is to be opon to all the colonies,

Mr David Jonon' large drapery establishment narrowly escaped des- ./£"""* truotion by fire to-day, but tho promptitude of the fire department confined the fhmea to the basement, considerable damage was dono by smoke and water. Had the fire obtained headway it would have resulted in the mist destructive conflagratiou on record in this Colony, as tho building is situated \ a block of largo buildings. The in o ur;mce was £126,0(10.