L ATEST INTELLIGENCE.
COMMERCIAL MATTERS IMPROVING
CABLE MESSAGES. Bj Electric Telegraph. — United Press AuociatioH Copyright —Received H',4,93 —8.30 p.m.
London, April 10. The Time* says the Board of Trade returns for March were better than those for many months previous. STRIKE AT HULL. Two gunboats have arrived at Hull to protect the docks and other property in case of attack. EARTHQUAKES IN HUNGARY. Vienna, April 10. Several severe shocks of earthquake have been experienced throughout Hungary and Servia. Houses collapsed, and innny peoplo were killed. The damage is estimated at several million franc 3. RUSSIANS IN PAMIRS. Calcutta, April 10. The Russians have penetrated from the Mnrghab River into the Makhand District, West of tho Pamirs, abutting ; on the British political frontier. They have ordered the Afghan commander to surrender Katapanjah, a town on the tributary of the Oxus, and frontier fighting is reported. FRFNCH OCCUPIED KIIONE. The French have occupied the Island of Khonc, on the Mekong River, Cambodia, without opposition. TIDAL WAVE IN CHICAGO RIVER. New York, April 10. A tidal wave in the Chicago River tore thirty vessels from their moorings. The district was also visited by a blzzard, which destroyed two monster hotels and levelled the Panorama Buildings to the ground. PRAIRIE FIRE AT OMAHA. An awful prairie fire is raging in the vicinity of Omaha City, Nebraska. " Fifteen miles of country have already been devastated, and the fire is now travelling at the rate of forty miles an hour. Several villages are in a state of terror, and the inhabitants are despairing of being able to save thoir houses,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9669, 11 April 1893, Page 2
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264LATEST INTELLIGENCE. COMMERCIAL MATTERS IMPROVING Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9669, 11 April 1893, Page 2
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