CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4511, 31 August 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign,

London, August 29, Dr W. 6. Grace resigns the captaincy of the Gloucestershire Eleven at the closo of the season, owing to differences with the County Exeoutivo. The Duke of Edinburgh has proclaimed his accession to the Duchy of Saxo-Coburg-Gotha, and asserted liis loyalty to the German Emperor and Empire* The Colonial Party in the Hoqso of j Commons numbers 22 members, among whom are included Mr Blake, of Canada, Mr Staveley Hill, member for Kingwinford, and Sir Donald Currie. [ In a discussion in of Commons on the Nayy Estimate, Sir ! Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Secretary to the Admiralty, announced that it was the intention of the Government 'to matarially strengthen the Mediteii ranean fleet. Sir Edward J. Reed, M,P. for Cardiff, named twelve jsL the firstclass warships which he deolared would turn turtle like H.M.S. Vic toria, if they were rammed, as they were of faulty construction. This statement created a sensation in the House, About 1000 Welsh miners are in a starving condition, Mr Ben Tillet and others condemn the strike and urge the men to form a Union, Mr Tillet also advocates that the miners' wages should regulate the price of I The Durham minors have again re* ■ 'M to Slfilie,

The minors on strike in Holbrook, Derbyshire, overpowered tho polioo and brutally ill-treated,tho wotkers. The polioo are beseiged whilo awaitr ing reinforcements, ; ■ Washington, August 29. A terrible oyolone has devastated North and South Caroliua, destroying in Its course Savannah, a seaport of 80,000 inhabitants, and muob of tho shipping in the harbour. The oyolone, ruged in Georgia as well as the adjacont States. Forty porsons were killed, and 10,000,000 dollars' worth of damage was done, Vienna, August 29. Cholera riots have taken placo in Qalicia. Thojgnprant peasantry stormed hospifflmd took patients back to their homes. Amsterdam, August 29. Cholera Imb nppearod at Delft, in Holland. Berlin, August 29. Two French spies, with platiß of the Heligoland fortifications in their possession, have been nrresied at Kiel on board an English yaobt.

Capetown, August 29. lias despatched envoys to Capetown to treat with Sir Honry Loch and Mr Cecil Rhode, Zanzibar, August 29. The German expedition sent to ftvengo tin* death of Lieut. Hulow stormed the Midi forts ut Kilimanjaro, after four bourn' fighting. There were many killed and wound* d.