NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3099, 9 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, January 7. Forty Brennan torpedoes aro being placed in position for coast defence, Sheerness has been appointed the testing station," Lord Onslow will give a farewell banquetat Guildford on 6th February. lho Eev 0. H Spurgeon has been injured by a fall,' The personality of the late Sir W; Peare has been sworn at under a million and a quarter, A laborer has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder and mutilation of a girl at leathbridge, in Somersetshire,

The late Lady Brassey's book on her last voyage (during which she fell ill and died) will be published in February, ' • . ' The Queen has announced her intention of bequeathing her Jubilee presents to the nation.

Oamuita, January 7. Aspinwall's oil yards at Cochin, a seaport ot India nave been burned, The damag6 is estimated at 1200,000. A deserter states thai' Osman Digna is at Handoub with 1200 men, and has refused to yield to advice to retire'to Tokar. The deserter further states that Osman recommence offensive operations directly th British troops left.. A deserter, who has just arrived from Khartoum, reports that Emm Bey is a prisoner there, and is being well treated.

Pabis, January 7. M, Jaques, who has chosen to oppose Boulanger, is President of the General Council of the Department of the Seine, ' It is stilted that the labourers engaged on the Panama Canal are dissatisfied, a feeling having arisen that there are no funds to carry on with. It is feared that a total suspension of the work is imminent. Thursday Island, January, 8,

A]l hopes ofthe'stesmer Vaitarna, which -left Cutch for Bombay with 90p native passengers on board, have been given up and she is supposed to have foundered with all hands in a cyclone.

Some hard fighting has taken place, in Formosa between the regulars and 3000 rebels. The flatter were repulsed with heavy losses on both Bides. • :<

Leasing Education Reseryes,

At the sale of.Eduoation Eeserve Leases held yesterday by 'Messrs Lowes and lorns at their Rooms, Masterton, there was a fair attendance of buyers, and for -sonie of the sections there was good competition, while for the small runs situated in the Eimutulia and Pahaua blocks there was,no demand whatever. The lots sold are as follows Alfred, tori rural seotibn No.' 1, 52 aores at 9d per acre ; do., section 17; ; 80 acres at 9d' jjer! aofe., Kopuaranga.—Section ,97, 552": acres at 6d per acre. Moroa. —Section 102, 64 acres 2 roods, at.Od per acre,;. ;Featheraton. —Town aore No. 61, L 8; do. 62, L 4; do. 188, L2 17s 6d; do. 244, L 8; do.; rural' section 1 No. 120, ■ 0 aores. L9los. ,