NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2984, 23 August 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

;i ' ' ' OAI'KT(fwN/AlJg«3t 181'j.l Sailed—Kaikoura, for New Zealand; i " ■ "\LoNI)ON.: : AugUSt_2O.-.;, .¥our; thougand ■ five; hundretl quarters of Adelaidejvheathave been sold at_ ; 88s 3d; .ton^,thousand!quarters abipped' this raoutli from : same port Ms been'' disposed "of-* at : 88si 'A : yictorian cargo bf seven thousand 1 five bundrjßdquarters, Sepleirilier slnpmeiit, sold at 865., ? > . The Japanese Government favorable to a Bcheme for the expendi- , ture of ten milliohs i over the period-of five years in, of fifteen ironclads and'tliitteenHorpedo boats. , Mr W.L.Rees, is petitioning i?arliamciit for assistance in carrying ontiihis :seheine'ifoivi the colonization of the East Coast district of New ' Zealand," has l been recommended by the Marquis of Lothian to, await, tlie,report of tlief (Jommittoe appointed by- the:, Government; -to enquire into' the-; best, means of promoting State colonisation, to whom the petition will probably be referred. It is expected that the Committee will not bring/np' theif report until the autumn session to bo holcKn' November. .:i'V:-; *: ■

Rio de Janeiro, August 18.

E.M.S. Aorangi from New Zeiiiand arrived here to day, with passengers all well, and meat. 111 good condition. SypNEy.rAugifst 22. fi

Robert Howai'trWias''b : ouvicted; on a charge of causing . the- death of Thomas Park by : assaulting. Jijm wbile confined in. a* collate the i Central Police Station on May 25tb,;hvill be. oxccnted on September lltli. : ' i! ' l |

' .'' ''' Melbourxb, August 22; ;l " Sir. J. H, '.Witlieford, of.. New. Zealand,; lias, interviewed Mr'Pi.T; Derham, Postmaster General, with reference to:. the Sau Francisco mail service, and suggested that Victoria sboiild joiii with New South' Wales in ' an effort to mamtaiii.tlie service, making Melbourne tlio headquarters.. ;'").