CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11879, 10 November 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph.— CoryiuoHT ] (Per Pbess Association ) Rojie, November 7. Miss Theoino Cohen's raomimuiit to Miss Pearson, Rod Cross Nurso, has boßn unveiled at Florence. The French Government arecontomplatins opening garrisons higher up the Alps in Decembor. The Italian press regards this as an v nnecessarily hostile movement and censure the Franch authoritijs. Paris, November 7. A rebellion has broken out in Ashantee, and the natives stoned the King to death at Cooraassie, the capital. Bight hundred Houssa police have left Elraina to suppress the rising. Madrid, November 7. The damage at Santander reaches a million sterling. The bodies of four hundred who have been killed have been identified. Doctors aro now arriving iti the town. London, October 7. Miners at Wigan dynamited an hotel because the landlord refused any further assistance to the men on strike. The men had refused to resume at 6s a-day. The old Comptoir d'Escompte Bank at Paris has paid a further dividend of 12J francs per share. The disorder at Marseilles continues, and tho police are powerless to cope with the crowd. The strikers throw petroleum on the cars, and then fired them. Dr. Horz, who is implicated in the Panama Canal troubles is improving in hoalth, and France has applied to Lord Itoseberry to extradite him. The difference between the coal owners and the miners in regard to terms upon which the latter are willing to resume work is only five per cent, and the newspapers strongly urge both parties to come t j a settlement. Obituary— Sir Charles Clarke, the eminent physician, aged 67 years. Mr. Gladstone was so much upset by tho news of Sir A. Clarke's death that ho postponed his speech and left the house of Commons. It is reported that M. Morley, Secretary for Ireland, will prosecute Messrs William Fiald and Hayden, Ms.P. on a charge of unlawful assembly. Mr. Gladstone refuses to introduce into the House of Commons during the present session, The Evicted Tenants and Miners' Eight Hours Bills on the ground that they are likely to causo long contentions. He has also refused tr c Radicals a day to discuss tho Matabele trouble. it is reported at Dublin that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of John Redmond for inciting the Irish people to violence by his speeches. Bbklin, November 7. In connection with the officers gambling Bcandal in Germany, a captain who was sentenced to imprisonment has committed suicide. New Yokk, November 7. President Peixoto, of Brazil, is equipping warships at New York, which sail as the property of private citizens, and under tho American fhg. Sydney, November 8. The execution of Glasson will take place on the '29th inst., at Bithurst