CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3486, 1 November 1894, Page 5

CABLE SUMMARY.

(bwelectric tblkoraph.-copyright). London, October 30, The Chief Secretary for Ireland, re# plying to a deputation headed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, refused to release j the prisoners convicted of dynamite outrages, and declined to hold' out any hope of their release until their sentences have been served. The Pall Mall Gazette says Lord Jersey's report on the recent Canadian Conference heartilysupportsHuddart's line of steamers, Mr Valentine expects to register his Colonial Produce Distributing Conn pany this week, issuing about 400,00 ft shares. Mr William Heaton Rhodes, youugesfc son of the late Mr R. H, Rhodes, of Canterbury, New Zealand, an Oxford student, fell from the scaffold of Braseuose College and was killed. Paris, Ootober 30. Reports have been received here of most inhuman cruelties alleged to have been practised on convicts in the penal settlement in Cayenne, French Guiana. 'lt is stated that the warders placed the prisoners on ant-hills after smeariug them with molasses; and another charge is that live men were chained to bodies already dead. St. Petersburg, October 29. The wedding of the Czarewitch and Princess Alix has been postponed pending the arrival of the guests. Cairo, October 29. News has been received that the' Mahdi is arming twelve thousand Arab 3 to prosecute hostilities against the Italians. New York, October 29. The New York Herald asserts that two thousand people were killed by the earthquake in the provinces of San Juan and Tarioja, in the Argentine Republic, and that twenty thousand have been rendered homeless.