NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume VII, Issue 336, 26 November 1897, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Melbourne, November 24. There is overwhelming evidence, despite the assertion of the brigade authorities to the contrary, that the fire lit up the city fully 50 minutes before the brigade were cogsant. London, November 24. The Daily Telegraph states that the losses of English Insurance Companies by the fire in Melbourne amount to £200,000, but is limited to £IOO,OOO. HACKED TO DEATH. Mexico, November 24. Ten police officials have been sentenced to death for complicity in the murder of an Italian who made an attack on General Porfirio Diaz, President. The mob broke the gaol and haoked the unfortunate man to pieces with knives. It was subsequently learned that the man was unarmed and drunk at the time of tho assault. LABOR TROUBLES. London, November 24' A general strike of railway workmen in Ireland is threatened in consequence of the principal railway companies having refused to regard the Amalgamated Society of Railway Engineers as representative of the railway men. THE RECENT STORM IN VICTORIA. Melbourne, November 24, Details of Friday's storm, which were delayed owing to the general damage to tha telegraph lines, are now to hand. These show that the storm affected the whole colony, and in many townships public buildings, churches, and a large number of dwellings were wrecked or unroofed. At Nhil hardly a building escaped. The main business thoroughfare, extending a quarter of a mile, caught the J full force, and, the frontages of the whole line of shops were driven in. A large wheat shed, auction rooms, skating rink, Anglican, Wesleyan and Catholic Churches, Salvation Army Barracks, fire station, and numerous shops were completely demolished. The damage to the crops throughout the colony is enormous. Several cases of serious injury are reported, and minor casualties and miraculous escapes are numerous. The cyclone extended to the border districts of New South Wales and the northern parts of South Australia, where considerable damage was done. CRICKET. Sydney. November 21. The English Eleven in their first innings, lost eight wickets for 38G runs, when they declared their innings closed. The chief additional scorers were :—Druce 58, Hay ward, (not out), 108 ; Mason (not out) 54. Glen Innes, in the ssoond innings, were all disposed of for 149. The Englishmen won by an innings and 117 runs.