LATE CABLES.
« [By EiiEctbic Telegraph.— Coptbioht.] (Per Phess Association.) Received October 17, 2 a.m. Sydney, October 16. in connection with the despatch received by the Victorian Government the Premier states he is personally favourable to the Pacific cable' through British wateis.bat he doos not think the cable to Now Caledonia will interfere with such an idea. Prom interviews he has had with Mr Bowell, Canadian Commissioner, ho anticipates that preliminary step will i taken in a few months to connect New Zealand with Fiji and thence with Vancouver. The schooner Messcee sprang a leak and the crew had a terrible time, being kept continuously at the pumps till the port was reached. London, October 16. A hundred thousand w.rkmen paraded Hyde Park in support of miners who are on strike. Eight death a have occurred at the Greenwich workhouse, and two hundred inmates are ill. Princess Marie of Bouroania, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, has bean delivered of a son. Washington, October 16. During a violent storm on the east coast of the United Stato3, the lightning set fire to the Baltimore Gaol. Five hundred and forty-four prisoners were rescued, but twenty were killed or injured in escaping from the burning building. Many deaths and much damagto property is reported elsewhere.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11866, 17 October 1893, Page 2
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212LATE CABLES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11866, 17 October 1893, Page 2
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