SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 100, 19 December 1872, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

TO THE "WAIKATO TIME S." DREADFUL FLOODS IN ITALY. ALARMING HORSE DISEASE IN NEW YORK. Auckland, Wednesday, 7'30 p.m. Mr Thillips has been re-elected Mayor. At the Yacht Race to-day between Weymouth's Energy and Oxley's Fleetwing,. the latter won. The Whau Hotel, ha& been, burnt down. It was insured in the Royal. The steamer has brought telegraphic news to Nov. 9. Cardinal Anate, Vice-Chancellor of the Roman Church, is dead. Large subscriptions are being raisod for tho relief of sufferers by the Italian floods. Bazaine is not expected to live through his trial. Colebiidge is appointed to Judgeship of Divorce Court. A riot occurred at Exeter - T it arose from an attempt to celebrate Guy Fawkes day. Seventeen wounded were conveyed to the hospital. Mrs Woodhull and Mrs Craftm have been indicted for circulating obscene publications, and committed for trial. Bail fixed at £2000. . The American Consul at Vienna has received 35 Jewish families who had fled from persecution in Wallachia. New York, November 9. Fourteen thousand horses in New York City have been prostrated by a new epizootic. It has been raging in Canada and Western New York. At latest dates, it was said that the epidemic continued unabated. Only a few horses were working in the streets. The disease has spread throughout the States. Trotting and racing horses have succumbed. Several persons aro ill with complaints similar to horse disease. Italy, November. Tho river Po 'continues to rise, and the inundation is spreading. Families arc llyiug. Those who cannot escape are starving on house- tops and trees. Tho streams are filled with carcases of cattle and wrecks of houses and barns. The town of Riggio has entirely disappeared.