CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8400, 14 February 1894, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright ) | (Per United Press Association.) London, February 13. ] Captain B. Graham ia appointed to the i command of H.M.B. Wallaroo, Captain 8. : A. Johnston to the Singarooma, Captain Julius Baker to the Katoomba, and Captain i B. Craig to the Orescent. Prinoesg Ina has regained consciousness, and is slowly recovering from the effeots of : her accident. . 1 Wheat has been sixpence lower during | the week. CoNSTAirriKOPI.B, February 18. Several deaths from oholera are reported here. Oaibo, February 13. At the instance of Colonel Kitchener, the Khediyp has promoted several English officers. , „ Washington, February 13. President Cleveland deolines to forcibly overthrow the provisional Q-overnment in Hawaii. , Details of the storm show that toore has been groat destruction on tho eastern ooast. ReDorcs from Chicago and the Western States al3o reveal a number of disasters. Twenty persons are known to have boen frozen to death in Oklahoma. A father murdered his family numbering six in all, in order to hasten their end. In other localities numbers of people were frozen Calcutta, February 13. Indian merchants are urging that the minimum rate for the sale of Council bills should be reflxed, and tbo disposal thereof entrusted to speoial agents. The Finance Minister of India is prohibiting tho private importation of silver. St. PBT3BBBUBO-, February 13. A Kusßian officer has been hanged at Odessa for divulging army secrets to a foreign power. Pabis, February 13. A young Anarchist named Breton, in revenge for Vaillant's execution, entered the Cafe Lazaire Terminus Hotel, Paris, and threw a bomb. The explosion killed ono and injurod 15 others. The perpetrator made desperate efforts to eecape, and severely wounded a policoman and a woman with a revolver before ho was c&uturßd. The mob endeavoured to lynch the prisoner, who declares further outrages have beon arranged. Latbb. Twenty persons in all wero injured by the explosion. The press demand that stringent laws should be levelled against Anarchists. Breton, who conies from Marseilles, boasted that ho was avenging Vaillant's death. The bomb was an ordinary sardine box.