NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1695, 17 June 1885, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

FEARFUL ACCIDENT IN FRANCE. FULLY TWO HUNDRED KILLED AND WOUNDED. TEE CHOLERA INCREASING IN SPAIN. MR GLADSTONE'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN ADELAIDE. Ijf.Mi is, 12. The frozen meat tx t:io >0,;) 1 an. r ..1 / ia selling (it s:]d. The Indian Museum at South Keushi Ton has been destroy...! b> lire. News IB to li.md from Thens, a tow 1 in the depart mem >d tie- Puy-i.- Doiim, ■ I a shocking accident theno A bnv.: number of people were ai-s 'in 1 in it' 1 "til < o n'ituuno, when th" st iimmsc) "1 the bin! "4', suddenly collapsod, precipitating its o'c.ll pants i" the giiiiind Folly :’M’> po; *<>■:< ■ known to have been Killed or seriously mjun d by the disaster. Reports lion; Ibt s tub ..{ tv .-ill : hj e.v 1 1 it the cholera is increasing in virulence, a id Jins already extend.d uier a coutiieiaoe area. It is iiuuoune id that !(■ r M d' -*v the t> le.-u has been please,i to accept toe res gnat ion •■! Mr Gladstone and his bl’go. id ;:i,t Lord Salisbury, who is at present at J! .bn m il. has been snuniioiie 1 to tuidcrtai-.c ibe foinwtiou ol a new Ministry. June 13. Obituary -The Ucv Edwin Paxton U ..!, Minister of the ludonm-deal de.iomira im ji, ,] author of a large number of works, ago!

import tint Kassala ha t fallen into the hands of the rebels is incorrect. Owing to the Ministerial crisis, the Bust inn squadron intended for d-'Se .teh to ,oe I'ai'ilii; has rec-. ived orders to remain in lire Baltic. From the same cause, paih ying on the Afghan question has been suspended. It has been resolved to liquidate the New Zealand Grain Agency Company.

The woo! mark'd is wedo r. Cro ssbred-: advanced on lust ripening runs. Merino- anId to Id below April rat s. The number of biles catalogue I is I'U.ti.) I, and th • number which have been withdrawn is 11,000. The harvest outlook is improving. The wheat market is dull; four off coast cargoes have been sold at 31s to3ds 3d ; wau-hon-u, 30.5. P.vms, June Id.

The Commission for the intixuatmmihsation "f the Suez Canal, which has been Hiring here for two months past, has concluded its labors. Tho main question of the control "I the canal still remains unsettled, however, the matter having been referred to the Kuropean Powers. Bombvv, dune 13. A series of fresh earthquake shucks are teported from Cashmere, and several hundred persons have lost their lives in the falling buildings. , ~ Apelaips, June 14. A shocking tragedy took place here yesterday. A man named Dines shot las wife and her paramour, killing them both, and then shot himself dead. Mr Downer lias succeeded in forming a new Ministry, which is composed as fo lows: Premier and Attorney-General, Mr Downer ; Chief Secretary, Mr Spence ; Jieasuroi, Mr Newlund ; ('ommiasioiier if Crown Linus, Mr It iwa ; Mmisier of I'uMic Uotk-, Mr Darling; MinisterofKducatiou,Mr Oockburn.