NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2380, 23 August 1886, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(BY ELECfIR'.C TELEORAPH —COPYRIGHT) KEUTER'B TEDIUMS, London, 20th. Colonial hreudstuffs have experienced a further advance. Adelaide wheat ex store is 6d higher, and Adelaide flour has advanced 6d to 25s 6d; New Zealand wheat ex store ranges from 28s to 35s Gd, being Is higher for best qualities, The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom 16 760,000 quarters, being 50,000 less than last week,

New Zealand mutton of prime quality has declined to 4fd per lb, Australian tallow is unchanged. London, August 21,

It is currently asserted that the French Governments intonds to retain New Hobrides, pending the settlement of ether matters in dispute between the English and French Governments. The debate on th« adress in reply was resumed in the House of Commons to-day. Mr T. P. O'Connor denounced the policy of the Government, Ho denied that the rejection of the Home Rule was irrevocable. He maintained that it was impossible for the Irish peasants to pay judicial rents. Sir William Vernon Harcourt condemned tho' proposal of the Government to deal with the disorder in Ireland without redressing their grievances. He ridiculed the idea of a similar form of local self-Government being given to England, Scotland, and Ireland. The debate was adjourned till Monday. - Mr Fergusaon, a supporter of Gladstone, has been elected .for Leith by a large majority. Sir Matthew Why.to. Ridley, who was Financial Secretary to tho Treasury in the last Conservative Government, has been elected for Blackpool in place of Sir F. A. Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, who has been raised to the Peerngo. Mr Gladstone leaves next month on a visit to Bavaria,. Earl Dunraven, Secretary of State for the Colonies, addressed, a letter to Dr. Ahearne, one af the delegates for the North Queensland Separation League, in which he atated tho right of the Crown to deal with the question of separation with Queensland was'doubtful, and it was doubtful the newly •appointed Crown lawyers might be found to have different' opinions on the question from those held; by the legal advisers of the State Government. That a delay would take place in dealing with the question, and that it was probable an enabling Bill would be shortly introduced inthe Houssof Lords!

before Parliament 'was asked to deal with ■ •an amendment in the Queensland Constitution Act,'.. '- . ; The' Australian mails v per P.'and Q.OompaiiyV Shannon, which leftMelbuUrrie" July 13th were dolivfiredto-day via Brindisi. "■ . Arrived at , Plymouth to--dayi'P. and-' 0. Coinpany's Tasmania, June 29th. • ' ' Rio de Janeiro, August 21. . Arrived this' morning, Tongariro.from _ ■Wellington, July 30th, with' a cargo of' frozen meat reported in good' condition.' Si Petersbero, Augusfc2l. A large passenger steamer on the River Volga has been destroyed by fire at Saratob, tw# hundred persons on board perished. ■ " ' . ' ■' London, August 21st. Mr Graham Berry had an interview with Earl Stanhope, Secretary .for the Colonios, at. which he stropgly urged an understanding should be come with the French Government to fix the date of the withdrawal of the French troops from Hebrides, . .. - A large party of Indian and Colonial visitors proceeded to-day to Dover, where' they were entertained at a public banquet, and .witnessed a series of naval manoeuvres organised in their honor. ■ ' Capetown, August 20. , The New Zealand Shipping Company's Ruapehu said this , evening for • Port. Chalmers. New Yoek, August 21. Seven men arrested iri connection with the Lake Shore Railway riots at Chicago in June lastliavo been tried and sentenced to death. . Melbourne, August 21, . The Cabinet has decided to rescind the regulations periiiitting gristing of, grain in bond. Hopes" are entortained that an understanding will be arrived at between masters arid men, and that the lock-out of ■ iron-workers will shortly terminate,