NEWS OF THE WORLD CABLE MESSAGES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9759, 26 July 1893, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD CABLE MESSAGES.

British, and Foreign Telegrams By Electric Telegraph. — United Prtu Association Copyright" fiece'tved 26,7193 — 9.50 a.m. SENDING DYNAMITE BY POST. Londok, July 24. A parcel delivered by yost at Broadstairs, in Eent, exploded, killing a resident named Richards in the presence of his wife and child. It is believed the package contained dynamite. ANARCHIST IMPRISONED. Bbussels, July 24. Schouppe, an escaped convict from New Caledonia, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude at Brussels for Anarchism. NOTED THIEF IN PRISON. Adam Wirtb, a noted thief at present undergoing a term ot imprisonment in Louvin gaol, has confessed to the theft of the " Duchess of Devonshire" picture; he is now believed to have been concerned in the late Hatton Garden and Postoffice robberies in London ; and is also credited With having committed many audacious bank, jewellery, and other robberies on the Continent, in America, and at Capetown, which have baffled the efforts of the police to bring the offender to justice. The picture was stolen' for sake of the ransom money, which, ] however, the thief was unable to claim, Jhfi whereabouts of the picture being unknown. SENSATIONAL YARNS FROM TURKEY. CoNtTANTINOfLE, July 24. Painful details are published of the tortures to which the Armenian prisoners are subjected to by the Turkish authorities. A number of them have been beaten to a jelly, whilo others wero scarred with hot irons. RUSSIA WANTS MORE LAND. &t. Petersburg, July 24. The Government are urging the Siamese Government to cede to Russia the Island of Junkseylong, situated off the north-west extremity of the Malay Peninsula, for the establishment of a naval depot. PIRATES SEIZE A VESSEL. Singapoke, July 2L ; Information has been received here that a number of Chinese passengers ion board a Dntch trader 'pirated the Tessol. killing the English officers and twenty-two of the crow; and fifteen other members of the crew were injured.