NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 3, 10 July 1894, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN. The Strike in America. London, July 7. The last Australian mails via San Francisco, which were due to leave New York on the 28th instant, have not arrived, being delayed by the strikers. [The following advice, referring to the San Francises mails, was received by the local postmaster on Monday, 9th inst:—"The San Francisco mail will be forwarded as usual from Aucnland next Saturday. A mail for specially addressed correspondence will also be sent by the Ruahine, leaviug Lyttelton on the 12th. The public should also be advised that there is no missing mail via San Francisco, inferred by a cable appearing in this morning's newspapers, dated London, July 7th. The mails which left London on June 16th were despatched from San Francisco on the 28tb, and the mail which left New Zealand on the 19th May arrived in London on-June 20th. TheMonowai, which left New Zealand on June 16th, duly arrived at San Francisco on the 7th, and the mails go forward by the Canadian-Pacific railway. The next despatcth from Loudon is Saturday next."] New Yoeic, July 7. The troops in Chicago are unable to cope with the rioters. The troops charged the mob, and were allowed to fire. The rioters dispersed at the approach of the military, but itnmmediately afterwards resumed an aggressive attitude. Obstruction to the ailway traffic was also resumed, the strikers wrecking, plundering, and burning a thousand cars, besides derailing cattle trains. The losses to the railway companies are enormous. Miles of track are torn up, and a number of engines disabled. Over one hundred switch-towers have been destroyed. One hundred thousand men have been dismissed from factories owing to lack of fuel in Chicago. Armed rioters attacked a train leaving Chicago, and, after a lively fusilade, the former retired with four killeJ. Similar scenes were enacted at other chief termini out West.

The Government is massing 10,000 troops in the Chicago district, as they fear an attack on Pullman Town. Kioters in Chicago have burnt 2000 Pullman cars, ,and a million dollars worth of cars in Wisconsin. The strike is extending to the East-rn railways, and the men in Buffalo, Pitdburg, and New York have been ordered to strike. The Knights of Labour have ordered its members in New York State to join the movement. Nine-tenths of the people in California are aidiog the strikers, and even the militia are assisting them. Washington, July 6. A mob at Pueblo hanged an engineer and a fireman, whom they regarded as "blacklegs." China and Japan. St. Petersbubg, July 7. The Government urge China and Japan to withdraw their troops from Corea, and then endeavour to arrange the dispute. Heavy Arrivals Expected. London, July 7. Forty vessels are due in London in September, with frozen meat. Cholera in Russia. St. Petersburg, July 7. Cholera has re-appeared here, and a number of cases are reported. The Ottawa Conference. Ottawa, July 7. The conference has endorsed the necessity of a Baitish cable across the Pacific, and the Imperial Government is to be asked to survey the route at the joint expense of Great Britain and Canada. The delegates from the Australian colonies stated that they were not in a position to commit their respective Governrneuts uutil the cost is known. It is believed tint the subsidy will cost £2500. A Silly Trick. London, July 7. While the Prince and Princess of Wales were driving in Hyde Park, a man carrying a parcel advanced and threw it into the carriage. The Princess turned deadly pale, but the Prince attempted to reassure her, and stepped up in the carriage, covering the Princess. The parcel struck the Prince, and burst when it was discovered that it contained only flowers. Bank of Now Zealand. London, July 7. A firm is negotiating with the Bank of New Zealand to take up the whole issue of preference shares at slightly above par. Anarohists on the Continent. Rome, July 6. Anarchists have murdered directors of the tramways in Pisa, in Leghorn. Three Anarchists in Tripoli, near Florence, have murdered several of their colleagues who h?id seceded from their order. London, July 7. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York are shadowed by detectives. The yacht Santanita ran iuto and sank the Valkyrie while racing in Clyde. Mr Michael Davitt- visits Australia in the winter. Paris, July 7. Santo, after conviction, will be treated as a parricide. Mr Campbell-Banuerman, Secretary for War, stated in the Ilonse of Commons that the Breunan t >rptdo had been an extraordinary success. The Prince of Wales' yacht Britdefeated the American crack yacht Vigilant by 83 seconds in a race o.i the Clyde,