CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4509, 29 August 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign,

Lojwon, August 2G.

In the lobby of the House of Com* mons torday, Mr J. 0. R. MacNeil, MSti?r I)one«al South, caned and pulled the ears of Mr Harry Furniss, the distinguished caricaturist, owing to n hideous caricature in Punch likening MacNeil lo a baboon. The miners, who are on strike in Staffordshire, are parading the country, torrifying and assaulting the workers, and destroying property. A contingent of Lancers has arrived at Stoko.

Fifty thousand Welsh miners remain on strike, but the military keep them in check.

A band of <IOOO strikers attempted to terrorize the men at work at Swansea. During tho scuffle that ensued one of tho workmen was killed by the assailants. Cholera has appeared in News, in Rhenish Prussia, Four deaths are re* corded.

There are several cases in England, all imported. At 11 o'clock las! night the closure was enforced in tho debate on the motion to report tbe Home Me Bill from Committee, and the motion was carried by a majority of 88.' There Was no eceno,

Tho third reading of the Bill has been Bet down for Wednesday next. Rome, August 27. TJ>e riots at Naples are being renewed, and in view of possible outrages by anarchists tho garrison has been increased. Nearly 1000 arrests lave already been made. Three hundred more arrests liavo been effected at Naples in connection irith the riots. Tho Negroni Caffarelli Palaco at Rome lias been destroyed by fire. The inmates had a narrow escape, and tho firemon showed great bravery in offtcting rescues. Tbe damngo is estimated at 8,000,000 lire (120000). Paris, August 2G, Four French warships have arrived at Kobsamit to aßsist in enforcing claims in Siam. tho discharge of the Danish officers in the Siamese service. M. YvesGuyot, member for tbo Seine, and a journalist named Degony fought with pistols at Longchamps yesterday, but neither was hurt. Washington, August 27.

Tho Lower House is expected h voto the unconditional repeal of thi Sherman Acton Monday by a largi majority. Capetown, August 26. King Lobongula, oi Matabeleland has sent fnrthor detiant letters to Si Henry Loch and Mr Cecil Rhodes The King is uaid to be greatly enraged and declines to take tbe month!; to treat with (he Britisl fcjSfrWrica Chartered Companj regarding compensation until tbi Mashonaß havo surrendered. Vienna, 27th August. The Vienna press asserts tha Euesia is making preparations ti occupy Herat, and that Penjdeh am Sarakbs, on tho frontier, are beinf fortified Tbe A Jeer's gariison at Hera Only numbers 500. Sydney, 27tb August., News has been received, vii Noumea, ofateriiblo explosion dar lDg the firing of agunon board th French flagship at Tahiti. Tbecbietgunnorand two mariner were killed instantaneously, a thin mariner died next doy, and a fourtl was landed at Tahiti in a critioa condition, . An interesting experiment has befli conducted at Albury with a net peat-preserving process. TMetail

bnvo not yet been disclosed, but it is stated that a carcaso operated upon six win ago wan found to be in per feet preservation and wholesome when cooked. It is behoved the process can bo successfully applied to ilio exportation of meat., French papers from Noumea state that it is only a question of a few, months, or perhaps oarliar, when Franco will declare a Protectorate over the New Hebrides, A lortnight ago, in a native quarrel, several natives were killed and oaten,