NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3035, 23 October 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

uA:. Jw.v.i v;.;- - ;. y -.o^. j Lovdon, October 20. ■}l The successor to Sir William Joivoia fts. Govoinoi' of iW.Zealand 19 still kepUtccretj 'biit it is believed t(>nfc the gentleman appointed is a Duke, whose,name has not been permitted to tunspire The rumour, is: again revived; tlint Lord ; Carnngton • bus resigned; the Governorship of Now South Wales. : The action of The Times 111 omit-, ting the name of MichaelDavitt from tuo charges presented to the Parnell commission .19 . regarded by the Irish parly as peculiar and unexplamable. The Hon Ai Ji Bulfouiy Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Manchester, showed that . the Irish policy, adopted by the present Government had led to rodupmg crime and <mtmgo 111 Ireland and asserted that the provisions of the Crimes Act were not eo rigidly miforced iis the coercion measures taken by the Gladstone Government. ■'

; Obituary—Boar-Admiral Shortknd (retired). . Berlin, October 20. The Royal Palace at Potsdaln. was to-day draped in ;erapo on the: occit. sion ot tlio annivorsary.. of the late Emperor's birthday. , 'A deputation of the leading citizens of Berlin r waited on the Dowager Empress Victoria;tO: day and informed her that tho civic I authorities had: decided., to establish, 1 011 an extensivo scale, a benevolent 1 institution toperpetuatelhe .memory 1 of,the late.Emporor Frederick.... : j ..." v . r . / London, October r ' Irt)u—Best ScotchpigT'No, lj 41s 9d. 'i" 1 ' t .. Wheat—Market shows general do* clme.of:9d the- Continental! market ia .steady. Australian wheat ex-ware: house, ;48& ; For cavgow of. sellers are asking! 435.' ■ New Zealand Ibng berried, quoted at 43a, i: Money' market weak', ; otylngM<j ahnridanfc siipjiliea in open market. :i . i: .Kew ; hemp has advanced from £3O-ss;to £BO 10s., v ;,>>■ The New ■ Zealand Loan aod cimtile; Agency!. Company]; (Limited) have received the following telegram from tiieir London Offibi?, ddlted'l9tli insli: firmfer,"! Good Million is. worth '298 3(1 jiei- cwti,-jjood beef, 28s 6d per, cwt; .Frozen.iaeat—, Mutton tnuvket:.is I'weaker,. Canterbury nililtonlis woHhfill; per.: lb; Wellington,-'4| per lb. Market is ovftr stocked for beef, 'New' Zealand.'lund quarters are worth lb. 1,: ' :: AUSTRAiiIAN;' .

'• . ; Sy:>nev,, October 11. Arrived—Mariposaii from Auck

Arrived—Wairarana, from t-Auok land.

to ' tb'e rumoured strike of seWien 'm New Zoalaiid, the Steamship OwncrsV Association have lesolyed. not to. permit ,thc ,IJnioii Steamship Company of New Zealand tb to singled out/nnd declare Hliiit'' if tho seamen engaged in the fleet ofth« latter companyjaro withdrawn,' tliby will,be locked out by; tbo: other companies. It is not improbable that the proprietors :of tho .toal minesiwill amalgamate; with' 1 -tho Shipowners' Association' in ' reaißtiDg the action' taken by labour agitations, ' , conference pf tbo delegates front the mine managers aud .the miners has made satisfactory 'progress l to'wird tlio settlement of tbe matters now in disputo. The men hive given way to the minimim and the managers to the maximum proposals by which tlie masters defined; the; standard of the scams,

The tiial of tlio nine aheare/s- who weie arrosted fop kiving tuken park in ■tlii* riots iii tlio Wagga district tobli place to-day, when the whole of them were found guilty Hia Honour passed sentences ruging from 'oioio year' to three years; . , ; •r.Tho.- cable; between Port Darwin and Bahjoewangi bm again been Interrupted, The wires failed' 1 at- 7.30 this morning (Single ; ; timo)sind the iirea'oil is.said to be 60 miles front Banjoewangi, „ , . v '" .The telegraph authorities here■ this, morning. received tlio following; in reference to the -freah i Uarwiii cables ng'airi'ihterriipted.iTlio repairing ship tos not bM the old cable since lusl Tuesday!" The duplicate failed aioul sixty miles fioni Banjoewangi,

■' ! _ . ' Melbourne, October 22, r; This mornitig 'a gooi^train'dashed into arisilk train from Niitrewarren, Macnannira, the driver of diq . goods train, jumped from the engine as. ho saw the impending, catastrophe, but stumbled, and wis cut to pieces by his ,own : train, •, Considerable damage to the rolling stock: resulted',from '-.the accident,. " " : 1 iM ■■