NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2697, 10 September 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

London, September 7. . Durihg'the debate on New Guinea, Sir Geprge Campbell moved that the salary of the Deputy Commissioner be reduced to £250. , Mr ■•:McArthur defended the employment of black labor as necessary to the cultivation of Bogar. "■, Sir H. Holland stated' that a Settlerhentsßill was, necessary' for tie Pacific Islands;, and also the registration of land purchases. ;' / In the House of Commons Captain Colonib, M.P. for Bow, condemned the Governmentftr securing- the preemption of. merchant cruisers. Mr Miirß.lorward, M.P. for Orms.

kirk, ami First Secretary of the Admiralty, in reply, admitted that the Admiralty hd aecnred every 16 knot British Steamer.

General Romanoff has proceeded to St. Petersburg to arrange lor the protection of Ruseian residents at Herat, " September 8. The British Trade Congress at Swansea has adopted apolitical programme embracing the payment of •• members', suffrage for all adults,- free .education, and expenses of Parliamentary elections to~ be paid-out'-of eight hours question was discussed but adjourned. ,

Paris, September 8. The Journal des Debars; in its issue to-day, confirms the announcement recently made hy Le .Temps, that a Settlement of the New (Hebrides question may be expected alter the recess; but adds that M.Florjana, the Foreign Minister, makes the New Hebrides question dependant upon the neutralisation of the Suez Canal, which, the Journal Btates, has nearly bßan settled. London; September 8. In proposing the.Navy Estimates ro .theHoußoofComuiOßß to-day, Lord .George',Ham jltoflj' Flrsb ■ iord •of >theAdmiralty, stated.that it waH not intended 'to construct more' irohblada at present, because Great Britain's navy. ,was considered to be .Supreme, jn this respect,., •

During the debate 'on the Navy Estimates in the Aquas' of Commons," Captain Colbmb opposed the payment, of a subsidy to-merchant' veisek even in, time of .war, obnteaditig that the arrangement would upset the postal 6ystem of the Empire. The vote was carried.

■ Severe, storms' in England ' have seriously damaged the hop crops, and the estimated yield in England and Continent will be barely half that of last year, A,portion of the consignment of oranges by the Cbimboiazo has been officially condemned as unfit for sale.