NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3021, 5 October 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

| Lomon, October 2. It is stated that Bishop Barry, of Sydney, will resign in a year 'from this date, Bishop Kenniou, of Adelaide, preaching at Halford, strongly condflmned the irreligious tendency of legislation in the colonies with regard to marriage and divorce. With a view to consolidate thecclouial church he suggestod certain Home and colonial dioceses should bo linked together, October S. The Standard urges that.Great Britain should declare a protectorate over the remaining islands in- tho Pacific not annexed in order to anticipate France. The ship Cressington from Melbourne reports fearful weather on the voyuge, The...vessel."had a narrow escape from foundering, and so imminent was tho danger that the captain never retired or undressed for ton weeks. I The English wheat market shows a goneral decline, tho average price country markets being 82s Bd. The Continental market has an upward tendency, and the Amorican is advancing rapidly. A cargo of Australian wheat has been sold at 40s fld, and anothor at 40s OaV

At the wool sales yesterday, 11,700 bales were sold.. Good sorts are firm, faulty and inferior a trifle easier. ■ Munich, October 2. The Emperor William, who -has arrived here on a visit to' tho King of Bavaria, had a most enthusiastic, reception, Oauio, October 2. • White .traders report that tho Malidi is dead, They know nothing of Stanley beyond the foot that he had left Bahr-el-Gazel for Khartoum. 1 Tho British ' expedition to the Congo country, to punish the murderers of CaptoiiiDalrymple,' is meeting with great opposition atthe hands of tho natives. . ' New Yckk, October 8. Anew International Society, in-, tended to -embrace' Australia, has been formed with its headquarters in this city. ■ Memouknb, October 4.. Three hundred ironworkers' on strike. surrounded ■■, a factory and attacked several non-unionists, one of whom was brutally ill treated, and another severely injured. ' Bhisbane,'October 4, A'valuable silver find, has boon made at Boorooboola, in Northern Queensland. It is believed it will become the'largest and richest field in Australia,' SYDNEY, OctOJP 8. For somp time past the police have been aware that an ..extensive system of defrauding the banks by means of forged cheques, lias .been.in operation in this city, but the perpetrators gfthe frauds nave eluded tho vigilance of the detectives, To-day, however, two brothers named Grieve were arrested ou the; charge. .The arnouSt' involved in their operations is unknown at present, but it is stated that alltheoity banks have been victimised. . ; - ( • There are signs of an early termination of the miners' strike." v" ; . ' ' lias deeb'ned Jo. erect™ 'cartridge;, factory aiiywieii but ion the s|te bankcoftlrtSkitwaierllivoi',. ) r . V :