NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2718, 6 October 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

[By Electric Telegraph.]

Londoq, Ootober. 4. T1& Anti-Bounties demonstration crowd paraded the streets headed by a; band and with banners flying, One resolution which was carried onthu-' siastically, was to the effect, that this meeting regarded with '.indignation a' fiscal system which permitted foreignlabor and foreign' goods" tb destroy : Home : industries, and. pauperise thei industrial classes of the country. It : was also resolv.ed to request Lord Salisbury and Mr Gosehen to receive a deputation appointed by the meeting, Messrs Woolloton and Son, hop : merchants, estimate the English - crop at 230,000 cwt. The quality is generally good- The damage-by..storms in September was exaggerated, and, is not of any - importance, A surplus will be available for export to America and the Continent, ■ . ; #ew York, October 8. Mr Bayard, Secretary of State,referring to the action of Germany in ( San>o(i»; the opinion tha

interference on the part oi the United States Government would be unwarrantable unless ' its. interests in those islands, were molested. , Calcutta, October 8. "It is again\ reported from Afghanistan that the Ameer is seriously ill. .Melbourne, October 4. " vTfe'Hoii. W.:'H.;;DaYiei- has been' elected' Speaker, of - the Legislative-, Assembly, iu : the ■ room ■ ;of Mr '••• Peter Ijalcr,': resigned, by 'a majority of onei; THE iNYEROAMILL PIKE. (United FresS'Asstfoiationij . jINVERCAMLL, Octohfir .0The loss through fire at'McCullum andCo.'s sawmill is estimated at <£2ooo. The flames had a good hold before being noticed by the night , watchman, who ran for assistance, but the flames' spread rapidly, and the building. was speedily destroyed, only a small part, of the plaut being saved. The mill stood just outside the to*n boundary and as the Fire Brigade have instructions not to attend fires beyond the boundary, the bell.was not rung, nor j did the Brigade torn out, The mem< beis on duty at the station were asked to assist, but refund, pleading their instructions. ' If' they had gone, the engine could have been worked within the town boundary;' as only a paddock interyeried.between.it and..fche.-rrail!-water. The captain of the. Brigade states that the Council had -previously objected to their attending outside fires. The reason of this is, that' the suburban boroughs do not contribute | to the maintainance of the Brigade. . A DANGEROUS CHARACTER. i , ■ { [United Press Association.]

Adoklahd, October 5.

Charles Wilkinson, formerly convicted of larceny in Dunedin, and lately released from Mount Eden gaol after serving a term for wilful damage to property, was charged at the Police Court to-day with vagrancy, and breaking a fanlight at' 1 Mr Roper's residence,-and was sentenced to five month's imprisonment in all, Mr Baddoley, R.M., remarking that the prisoner was a most dangerous man to be at large.