CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4502, 21 August 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

■ British and Foreign, j Londox, August 17. The Home 3ccretary denies the statement pub Mod in the United Ireland newspaper that Gallagher, the dynamiter is to be released. Mr Gladstone has announced that the closure will be applied to the Homo Rule Bill on 25th August. Mr Chamberlain lias given notice cfan amendment protesting against the conversion of the House of Com* monSwT'a mere voting-machine, A thousand strikers marched on EbbowValein Monmouth, Wales, in order to intimidate the men who had taken thoir places. The luttor retaliated, and a fierce fight ensued, a number on either side being injured. The Cumberland miners hare re sumed work at an advanco of 10 pei cent, The Durham miners refused to strike. I August 18. i Cordons of soldiers surround the! working districts in Ebbow Yale. Twenty thousand Welsh miners) are marching on the Merthyr Treharria collieries to compel the cessation! of work, A number of mechanics and tradesmen, angry at the losses caused by the strike, attacked a large body of Welsh miners, and a fierce fight ensued, in which the weapons were principally huge staves. Many hero injured, and the miners eventually gave way and fled, The assailants included a mimbor of miners who were willing to work but had been prevented by the strikers. The men who were attacked in some oases used pistols to defend themselves. Tho police and military intervened, and finally quelled the disturbance. Ten thousand men assembled al Pontypridd and prayed for Divim guidance during the strike, The temperature in the shadein the South of England is from 90 to 93 degrees, are reported from th j exMßsiye heat, which has also pro duced a plague of wasps. Owing to the great heat, harvostin< aud military operations have been de ferred. Sir Evelyn Wood, QuartermasterGeneral, has forbidden parades to bo held after 10 a.m. The Pall Mall Gazetto gives publicity to a statement that the sum of £6OOO was privately subscribed for tho purpose of abducting from Buenos Ayres J. Spencer Balfour, ex-M.P,, who is wanted in England to answer charges of fraud in connection with the management of several building societies of which he was managing director, Four victims of the Liberator Building Society undertook the work, and Balfour was secured by them, He was greatly terrified, and applied to the Argentine Republic for protection, Ban Fbanoisco, August 18, It is reported that two unknown schooners made a raid on the P:!bylofF Islands in Behring Sea. The watohman was gagged, and hundreds of seals killed, and the Btores and ekina belonging to the lessees were stolen. Bdda-Pesid, August 17, Revolting and sickening details of a baby.fJjjto in Warasdin, a town on the Drave, 28 miles north-eaßt of Agram, has been published, It is alleged that children were purposely crippled, in order to accom- "• panybesgars soliciting alms, Horrible • implements of torture wero found on the premises, Two childron wero found with their legs and arms purposely broken, others had their eyes gouged out, and another child was doubled up between tightly-screwed boards. Sydney, August 19, The Act prohibiting the use of tho Post Office for the conduct of sweeps and lotteries is now in operation.