CABLE NEWS HOME AND FOREIGN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2851, 6 July 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS HOME AND FOREIGN.

liiinan liner nsbore.

Lo*pasr, July 4>. — Tl^e Inman liver City* o£Jshi|sa^^aj&^iore on the Heads ot Kinsale during a fog. There were 400 passengers aboard, aud all were safely landed in boat*. London, July 4.-~lt is expected th*t the Inman liner/. City of , will be floated off the Head of Kinsah to-day. London, July 4. — It was through the coolness displayed by Qaptam Red fern that the passengers on board the City of Chicago was eared ; a panic occurred among the passengers after the vessel struck and the Captain ordered the life boats to be launched and two hundred persons were landed. The cliffs were scaled in the darkness by means of a rope ladder. Mr Matthew Davis, ex-speaker of the Victorion Parliament, has reached London ; he was a passenger by the City of Chicago and lost everything. Election episodes in Irelaml. London, July 3. - - O'Brien left Limerick secretly by special tram to avoid the mob. Severe faction fights have taken place in Ballina, Dundalk and Newry, and many persons have been injured; A rail was displaced with a view to upset three hundred supporters of Dr O'Connor and the McCartkyites, near Kildare, and a serious accident was narrowly averted. Spiritualist dead. London, July 3.— Kate Fox, the spiritualist is dead. „ Our atuletes at Home LbNDdN, Ja\j 3.--The members of i the New Zealand Jittiletic team were entertained at dinner on Saturday evening by the ' London Amateur Athletic Associations. Sneakers hoped that the Colonials would jeuew their visit and assured them that they would meet with every welcome. • Home polities and comments. LoifDdir, July s.— Sir J. Lubbock , insists this is the last desperate struggle of Home Rulers, they being 1 conscious of coming defeat. 1 The Archbishop of Galway is cxi pelling Parnellifces.

The ■"' Times " asserts Mr Gladstone's view that the peace of Ireland rests on the hope of his, return to power would send an inmate of Bedlam into convulsions. The " Daily News," on the other hand, contends that the Edinburgh speech has burst the "Ulster* bubble. Extensive defalcations. Pabis, July 4— Lowerry, a diamond merchant in this city has committed suicide: his defalcations amount to £130,000. The Anarchist threats. Pa #is, July 4. — Anarchists are plotting to rescue- Bavachal and threaten to resort to the use of explosions unless he is released. An editor in trouble. Berlin, July s.— The editor of a Grerman Journal has been sentenced to imprisonment for three months for saying that the Emperor William shot deer out of season. Cholera panic at Baku. The disease spreading. St Pete h sb uua, July 4— At Baku the bodies of those who have died of cholera are left unburied, the scare is so great. ' The authorities are leaving the i town and the doctors being unable to ! cope, with the disease are charac- ' terized as cowards. i The epidemic has obtained a firm hold in Astrakhan and is still ingDecline in the Customs. New Y'mx, July 4.— The Customs revenue collected in the United States for the financial yeai* shows a decline of two million dollars.

The American flag torn, Ottawa, s.— During the celebration of the anniversary of the institution of the Dominion in Toronto the American flag was torn to shreds while the bands were played national airs.