NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3068, 30 November 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

;v J \'i.L6NDoi:^oyeiiiter^ ; |i, ■' 13eipreplio ivool sales' commeticou; • to : huyemliold ;.s.nieetui|:; when 'life'was ;resolved : tq:-leay'e''tjiti; room If -wqolbrokera insisted pilfer-' tiling;bids,'' The Importers' ■Committee'; met"afterwards and.insisted on furthiiig. bids being.received for -woolup to-lOd.in valuer On;the decision being aunounced, the inajor ; ity ;of tlie\ljuyefs left their" Boats! but remained .in.the.'room. The auction-' eer attempted to sell but very few bids wore receive'dH Ultimately'-hi) was conipeM to discontinue thosalo in consequence of the yelling, hissing and singing .indulged lii by some of those present."•Li'urtlier meetings'' uioto be held to,-nionw to decide -.what, course shall. be taken ,witli respect to the; bids, The number of bales available is -157,000; iuoludiug. a cargo ox Balmoral castle.' '"'■'

November'2B.;

The wool brokers and buyers have agreed jo. a .compromise by ivhion farthing bids'wili'i be acceded up to ■M: ■-. -.i*M; .-'..,fi - ',t : lii Hie House of Commons to-day'-, Baron- de -Worms denied that Lord Knatsford and the Marquis of Loth-; ian had approved Mr')Y, L.. Bees' colonisation scheme.. He added that the New Zealand- Government had sent a cable message to the Imperial Government to the. effeot : that the [figures mentioned in Mr Mees' proposal were entirely misleading'.';- ~ The Committee', appointed-to : en.quire into the circumstances connected with eerviiig.'a summons on Sheehy considered that a .breach of privilege has not, been' c'ommittecd, but that it was a grave indisbrbtibiv on the ; part of the police authorities;' '';,.' A railway signalsmau, living 'in

a village-m Staffordshire, in a fit of insanity nurdered his-wife: and; ( ;t\vp children. • 'Aftar lia'clnng. the bodies about in a fearful inaririer, be out his own throat, but is still alive. . . Tho second batalhon oftlie Scottish Borderers has been ordered to proceed to Suakirn. ■"•■'' . 7 . ■■.. Before'tho'Parncll Oomuiission to-'

day several police officers wero ex; ainined. They deposed that the Laud League had offered rewards of ,'i6o C to anyone shooting bailiffs, and £BOO for shooting porsons, pronounced

guilty of paying rent.: Evidence was. also given that thoiuner circle of the League- '■ had •committed •' outrages, and persons refusing to vote for tho League's candidates for Parliament were threatened with death.

.As a raarlr of Her, Majesty's sympathy with -Sir Charles Warren, he lias been offered a command ai Aldershot.•. ."> ' •