NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2275, 20 April 1886, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(BY ELKdB'.O TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT)

KKUTEB's TELEQUAMB,

London, April 19,

Received April 20th 1 a,ni,—The Government land purchase scheme provides that the inperial receiver General shall receive.the rents, of the purchased properties and that the same shall be a first charge on the Irish revenue.

The Peninsular and Oriental steam navation coy, havo completed arrangements by which the vessels on the passage from London will pass through the Suez Canal without touching any places en route, and thus avoid the Qua a tine imposed by .the Egyptian authorities.

Per Merchant Shipping Underwriters Assoc : atton -Arrived Uasterhill, on January 7th, and Himalaya ou Jan. sth; both from Port Chalmers, Constantinople, 19,.

Replies have been received from the French and the Italian Governments in reference to the Greek question, intimating their intention to adopt a similar lino of action to that meditated by the other Powers, Adelaide, April 19. The ' Mossageries Maratimes s.s. Oceania .arrived, this afternoon with the Euglish mails of March Bth. Sydney, April 19.

'•'A ■telegram from Lithgow announces a disastrous explosion occurred this afternoon at the Lithgow Colliery Cos, pit which took fire a short time ago, At the time of the explosion ten men were in the workings, five of whom were' killed and the others rescued alive.