NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3010, 22 September 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Londom, Septombei 19. f - > At tho wool auctions to day 18,000 C' _< * bales weie told, the seleotion offered < being muoh bete 1 than on the provi- ( oua day. Australian faulty soits aro 'I haidemng. - feiehsh hop stocks are heavy. , September 20. Jm , A ropoit is ourient that the Ameer ,' of Afghanistan is dead. The report emanates from St Petersburg, , f Mr Gladstone pays a visit to Birmingham ahbrtly for thepurposo of -•; v delivering a political address. A . .■. ~; . public demonstration in his honor is being organised by the looalLiberal clubs. A riot took place yesterday among -, the Irish laborers at the' Glasgow Docks, and brutal and ferooious ,• fighting occurred. Tho police, who.'attempted to quell tho disturbance, were Completely overwhelmed. The • fighting ■ continued till the rioters •. ■■ ■ - ,•■■■:. C& were thoroughly exhausted. A large number of arrests have Binco been , made, and 52 of the ringleaders have''' w been sentenced to various terms of v ! imprisonment. ■ The : Eight Hon J. Chamberlain, speaking at the Unionist Conference at Bradford, said that the healing of H the breaoh between the two branohes - ' of the Liberal party now seems to be [k*, impossible. . . ' . . WAsnisaioN,-September 20. ■ ' The Senate is not disposed to - hasten the passage of tho Retaliation : Bill. - . *

- Berlin, September 19. \ « A new steam shipping company .. . : has been formed for the purpose of •' trading between Germany and Australia, with a capital of £200,000. v .• . Rangoon, September 20. ' . The Da'coits aro. still troublesome . in Burmah.. Lieutenant O. N. Beevor, x of the' Royal Engineers, has been murdered, and several officers and , men wounded, All the outrages have apparently been committed by the same gang of Dacoits, ; Paris, September 20. A German gendarme has been , / ; found' shot dead near Luarce, a French ;frontier town. The perpetrator! of the crime is as known.