CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4811, 29 August 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

China is engaging a'number of American engineers, •Hie cholera is increasing in St, Petersburg, Warsaw, and Western Russia, Citizens of Boschew.n liavo murdered a wealthy Jewish family, cou" sisting of niuo' peisflnd, Fresh disturbances have broken out in Sicily, and the situation there is regarded as grave. Li Hung Chang has informed tha Minister that lie deeply regrets tho murders and assaults on missionaries) and lie ordered the culprits to be beheaded, . ' f It is reported that tho cannibal habits of the Soudanese troops oni. ployed by the German authorities iuj the Cameroons are creating a reign of terror. A dam at Lake Gohna, in Bengal, burst, and a whole valley was flooded. Tho engineers, however, had foreseen the probability of tho accident, and were watching the dam. Timely warning was given, and villagers to the number of 1000 we're taken out of harm's way by special trains. M. Stuart ?ing, Secretary to the Commissary of Police, jlentqne. was shot dead while entering his residence in tho conjpany 6f %ie'nt|s f Tho assassin, who is believed to lie an Anarchist, wa ; s secreted in the house, and made his escape. The steamer Celtic King collided Harbour, one of the arms of Sydnef port, last night, cutting the bows of the latter through from the forecastle headlo the main . deck. The We, wrecked 2he boasf of Neir ' Uledomaj was insiM in the' South' : ißuhsh office for &3600, which i mostlywinsoredinflocajloffiwg,-