NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2587, 2 May 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Electric TELEGRAPHV-CoPYRiGnT ■■■ (Renter's Telegrams.) London, April 28. At a banquet given by the Fair Trade League last night, Sir Graham Berry declared that Fair Trade had given unexampled prosperity to Victoria. Sir Samuel Griffiths, of Queensland, in the course of his speech, expressed his belief that a customs union of the different parts of the Empire was not.feasible. He urged that liigher duties should be imposed on goods imported from foreign countries than the latter on British or colonial productions. /Vi'.-,:

April 29. The Queen is now returning from France, and on her arrival in England will proceed to Windsor.,.;■■ Constantinople, April 28. Negotiations regarding the future Government of Egypt-are still proceeding. Sir H. Drummond Wolff, the British Commissioner has proposed that tho evacuation of Egypt shall be completed within fivo years. Kiamil and .Said Pashas, the Turkish Commissioners, have rejected this proposal and havo applied to the Sultan for further instructions as to the course they shall pursue,

Cairo,' April 29. Intelligence is tohand from Wady Haifa, on the Nile, that the Egyptian troops under Lieut-Colonel Chermside recently'attacked the rebel Dervishes, who were encamped hi the Wady Haifa district, and inflicted a severe defeat upon them.' Their leader was killed, together with a largo number of his followers, and their camp captured.- '

Melbourne, April 80. The latest, accounts receivod from Perth, Western Australia, regarding the disaster to the pearling fleet are of a somov/hat conflicting character. The fleet is reported to 'have been 250 miles to the north-east of Cossack whon the hurricane occurred, most of the boats being well laden with shells. The master of the Australasian reports that 48 of the craft were in Gourdon Bay, many of them being seriously damaged. She supplied the crew with food. She reports that many bodies were to be seen floating about in the vicinity. The total number of boats •lost is estimated at 40; 550 men are missing, and it is known that 87 Malays have been drowned.

Sydney, April 80. Accounts received from Western Australia of the shipping disaster state that six schooners and fifty luggers, representing 900 lives, have been lost. Each of the luggers contained six men. It is considered probable that many of the boats were blown out to sea, Of the entire fleet 56 vessels were owned by Sydney firms. London, April 80th. A highly successful conversozione was held at the Colonial Institute today, many prominent colonists being present,

Paws, April 80. M. Schnabell, the French Commissioner, who was released from Metz by the Emperor of Germany's orders, arrived in Paris to-day, met with an' ovation from the -crowd assembled at Porte a'Marisoh. .