CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2776, 16 December 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, December 13. \ •The Australian .and New "Zealand mails, from Auckland 7th November, '■ via San Fransoisco, and the mails ex '. ■P. and 0. R.M.S. Chusan, from Mel- j bourne, 3rd November, were delivered here to-day. Sir Charles Mitchell, ex-Governor of Fiji, has been appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands. New York, December 18. Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner for Canada has been interviewed whilst on his way from Chicago to Manitoba, and in reply to questions as to the probable result of the Fisheries Commission, he declared his firm conviction that the Commission would effect a settlement of the dispute, which would be found to satisfy all persons concerned.

THE ANTI-CHINESE MOVEMENT,

Melbourne, December 14. A deputation from the Victorian Anti-Chinese League waited upon the Premier to-day to urge upon him the necessity of providing legislation to prevent a further influx of Chinese into this Colony. The deputation presented the resolution adopted at the recent meeting held at Carlton, which was in favor of the imposition of a residental tax of £2O upon all Chinese, 'and increasing the poll-tax to £loo.' Mr Gillies sympathised with the deputation, and expressed a hope that the non-issue of further naturalisation papers, coupled with the thorough administration of the existing law, and united action on the part of the other colonies next year, would prevent the evils arising from Chinese competition.

SHIPPING DISASTER, Brisbane, December U. Telegraphic advices from Mackay report that a fatal shippingjiccident has occurred at that port to-day. The •A.S.N. Company's s.s. Gmiga, with 150 excursionists on board, dragged her anchor and drifted on to the wharf, damaging her stern. The vessel then steamed into the stream, but her line becoming jammed, carried away the stanchions and other gear, crushing a woman named Holland and a sailor named Campbell to death. Several other persons sustained injuries,

THE FRENCH CRISIS. Paris, December 18. President Carnot's message to the National Assembly proclaims the policy of the Government to be one of concord. Political reforms will be at once introduced, with a view to improving the financial administration. Referring to the foreign policy of France, the message states that it will be the aim of the Government to. prove to Europe the desire of the Republic to help strengthen the general peace. The medical attendants on M, Jules Ferry state that he is recovering from the injuries inflicted by Aubertin.'' '■'■* '■■ ; \ ' ' The charges' brought against M. Daniel Wilson, in connection with the recent War Office scandal, have been held by the Judges to be legally untenable, aud therefore dismissed. THE STATE OF IRELAND. London, December 18, Mr Jasper Pyno, M,P. for West Waterford, against whom a warrant was issued for inciting resistance to the sheriff, and who, to prevent being arrested, fortified his residence, Lisfarny Castle, left his house during the night, and eluding the police in the darkness, managed to effect his escape.

NAPIEECEIMINAL SESSIONS. Napier, December 15. Six prisoners at the Criminal Sessions are charged with forgery, horsestealing, and criminal libel. The chief Justice in his charge said that with the increase of education, forgery cases were also increasing. • It was a pity men did not put their education to a better use, Both Maori and European charges of horse-stealing were also on the increase, for when men wanted drink and a horse was handy in a paddock, the animal was stqlgn, and unfortunately there was no difficulty in disposing of it, for from a jriedipal nractitiop' to. aljamiajdju a public' house, anyone would purchase them. lii the Gpjnpensatiou Court J. N.: Williams was awarded £SOO for land taken by the Minister of Public Works aji Hasting-s for sta|iqn puraqses.

POLITICS IN NEW. SOUTH WALES, Sydney, December 14, The evening sitting of the Legislative Assembly yesterday was one of great confusion and disorder, culminating in a scene the like of which has never been equalled hi Parliament. When the cloture was applied on the question being put, member after member rose and protester] agajiist the action' of "the' Speaker, and each was successively' " hanied,." and removed below the gangway by the Sergeaiit-at-Arfiis. Fourteen menders in all of the Qpuositwn'were 'thus dealt with, among them "being Messrs Dibbs, Lyne,' Garvan, Melville, O'Sullivan, prjjej:, Walker, Hassall/and Wall, It 'ya§ not jjjitjl 3$ 'pibjjs' mptjg'n. censuring the finaiiciai proposals of the fepy.?rnment had : been'rejected that 1)9 memjjW'.'Mipied'.' returned to the chamber. Great ill-feeling was manifested throughout the proceedings, which to-day have been the /subject of much .comment. The House did not rise until after 1Q tin's morning.

A COMICAL GEYSER, Auckland, December 16, In the Eotorua district an extinct geyser known as Te Wairoa suddenly sl\w up boiling water 200 fe ; et high, wifT la'rge"quanliity of eyeless fish ready CQQtedv