CABLE NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 191, 8 December 1896, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(I'l l- I'ltsx A:s<>riaU"U. —I '"piirbjlit.) London, Dec. 7. Wreckage from the Brighton chain pier, destroyed in a recent gale, was dashed against the Western pier and cut it in halve.-. Lord Elgin reports that partial rains are improving the Indian crops, and prices are falling. Two hundred and seventy thousand men are employed on relief works. Obituary—ll. F. Pease, M.P. for Cleverland. The Times says that the recent storm was the most terrible gale of the centnrv. Great damage was done in Eastern and Southern England and Wertern France. The electric railway between Brighton, Kempton, and Rottingdean was ruined. The English shipowners propose to coalesce with the Hamburg masters to withstand the strikers. It is reported at Hamburg that the Australian dockers have remitted -10,000 marks in aid of the strike. The National Agricultural Association at Birmingham passed a resolution in favor of a Zollverin of Great Britain and the colonies. Cape Town, Dec. 7. The Boers in Northern Natal and adjacent- Orange Free State districts are arming and laagering. They profess to be afraid of a native rising. Washington, Dec. 7. At Mr Bayard's request the project of a national Christmas gift has been abandoned. C'oNs'iANTrNni'r.E, Dec. 7. The Young Turkish movement is extruding despite constant arrests of members of the party, who are punished by torture and exile. Bkbmn, Dec. 7. In consequence of the allegations against, him in connection with the newspaper prosecutions Ilcrr Tausch, Chief of the German Police, has been .suspended. Caiko, Dec. 7. The amount advanced by the Caisse de la Dette towards the cost of the Dongola expedition has been refunded. The Khedive has expressed his lively sense of gratitude for the British aid in regaining tin; lost province. Atiikxs, Dee. 7. Twelve thousand Greek reserves are mobilising. It is believed that this step has been taken owing to the menacing situation in the Balkans. Svijnky, Dec. 7A report luts been received from the Sacred Heart Mission in New Britain that smallpox is ravaging the group and has swept away a large number of natives. Cnnibalism is also rampant in some of the northern portions, and over -"K) natives were killed and eaten. Sneddon, another of the men rescued from the Stockton colliery, has died from the elTects of the fumes. The Mayor of Sydney is opening a relief fund.