CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3023, 14 January 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyrighti ght

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, January 11.

Mr. Hill Wells, the Londoner whose winnings at Monte Carlo recently attracted so much attention, iB again at the tables playing, but this time he has been a continual loser.

Lord Charles Bereaford retires from candidatcy for Kensington.

Another Walsall anarchist has been arrested.

LONDON, January 13.

Professor Sterling endorsed thß paper read by Prof. Anderson Stuart, and said he hoped to see a conjoint universal examination for Australia. Professor Beare urged tbat the national culture scholarships should form an important branch of pan-Britannic contests. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, hoped that a closer connection would b« — ajftratomerl between colonial and English universities.

The Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend oi^ijjj&per cent per annum and carried forward a sum of £16,000. ™ '"

New Zealand Gold Extraction Company amalgamates with the parent Company.

Ninety-nine deaths from influenza were reported in London last week, compared with 37 in the previous week. The death rateof those attacked ib 32 per thousand. f% WASHINGTON, January 13. Harrison is reported to have |Hs^3' the Cabinet that the Chilian pPPRion is serious, inasmuch as there is kn absence of expression ot regret for the attack made on sailors belonging to United States warship Baltimore by the Chilians.

NEW YORK, January 12. A fearful railway accident is reported from Crawfordville in the State of Indiana. A train became derailed and fell over an embankment fifty feet deep and was nearly smashed to pieces. Two passenger were killed outright and 38 badly hurt, several fatally. One car rolled over thriceand eventually caught fire, but the passengers managedjjtp escape. The passengers on the tratnft included three theatrical company a, and, one actress was killed. HONG KONG, January 11. The reported suppression of the rising in Northern China is doubtful. OTTAWA, January 12. Baroness McDonald, widow of the late Premier of Canada, is suing the Toronto Globe for libel for stating that she had been implicated in wrongful land speculation.

MEXICO, January 11. A rising has taken place among the Shuka sect. General Ancbola was reelected President of the State of Chihuahua. The mob objected to the election, and killed Anohola aad his secretary, subsequently taking possession of the town.

SYDNEY, January 13. The Government has received irom London a epeciai report on the English frnit market, as a means of absorbing the surplus fruit in New South Wales. The demand for- foreign fruit in England amounts to eight and a half millions sterling. In the report the opinion is expressed that while green fruit would form an immediate trade, the greatest trade would be in dried and candied goods.