NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2527, 17 February 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(BT EbKCTRTO TELEGRAPH—OOPVRIGHT) KeUTER'S TELEGRAMS, i Calcutta, February 15, Twenty-five thousand, prisoners in India have been. discharged in; honor of the Queen's Jubilee, tho Utea in connection with which event, commences to-day. London, February 16, At BaUyear, in the County of Clara,

Ireland, a bailiff and two constables were shot and mortally wounded. Tlie assassins, who were in ambush, succeeded; in escaping from the police. , Itis'announced that [Lord Balfour of Burleigh will succeed Lord Dun-' raven as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.

London, February 15. The wool market is now decidedly firmer. The catalogue at to-day's auction comprised 11,500 bales. , , . Adelaide, February 16, A deputation waited to-day upon the Premier, asking for a declaration of the financial policy of the Government, In reply, Mr Bray informed the deputation that there is now a deficiency of one milion and a quarter in the consolidated fund, but this was not likoly to bo increased, Ho added that the income tax had failed to realise expectations, and that the Government would propose tbo imposition of a-property tax on a basis similar to that enforced in New Zealand.

Pout Darwin, February 15. The four-masted ship Euphrates, bound from Greenock to this port with railway plant, struck on a rook 20 miles eastward of Palmerston. It is believed that sho has sunk ft in' deep water. She is insured in Adelaide to the extent of £30,000. February 16. _ The ship, Euphrates has kept afloat since striking tho rock. She is, howover, leaking badly, and has six feet of water in her hold.

Sydney,' February 15. The steamer Banger has been wrecked in Trial Bay, and the captain and the Engineer have been drowned, Melbourne, February IS. Mr Trotter, acting British Consul at Tonga, who is now on a visit to Australia, had an interview, yesterday, with the premier. He declared that the British residents at Tonga regard the situation there with much anxiety and urged that the Imperial Government should be asked to intervene with a view to a settlement of affairs.