CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4514, 4 September 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British mi Foreign

' London, Ist September. TII9 Welch members of the House of Commons have resolved to sesede from the Liberal Party unless tho Disestablishment Bill is passed noxt year..,.. .:;,,,:./-■

The strikers let loose a track on the Midland Railway at Erkington, but a'signal man gave warning just in time to prevents crowded excursion train from being wrecked. The Times correspondent wires that Mi lie; Villpra,' French: Envoy to Siara, has abandoned his violent attitude, and is. now conducting \ ncgotiattous quietly on the basis of j thei original ultimatum. . The British gunboat Swift has been sent to Bangkok. ■ Sidney, This Day. Drew, a member of the well-known mercantile firm of Maoraady, Drew, & Co., of Melbourne, has been arretted on a oharge of being concernod in the, embezzlement of £IO,OOO.

The firm were agents for tt' Paris firm, who sent out an agent to investigate the accounts, with the result that £IO,OOO was unaccounted fori Macready is believed to bo in London, and Bruce, soother partner, has gone to Natal, Washington, Ist September, .Another shocking railway accident .has been recorded, ,-'

An express train from Boston to Albany fell .through a bridge over the Westfield Biver, Twenty persons were killed; and many others injured, . Brisbane, (September 2, The revenue of August shows : a decrease of £49,000 oompared with the same month last year, Sydney, September 2, The revenue for the quarter ended yesterday, shows a deorease of £60,000 as oompared with the corresponding quarter of 1892, Washington, Seplembor 1. The silver men in the Senate are giving way, and it is believed that there will be a majority of 40 in favor of the repeal of the Sherman Aot. Gamutta, September 1, The Ameer of Afghanistan has I appointed his. son ; a co-regent with j himself, and. be asks'tfWhnd': to reoogniße such admimstraWj;