NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3100, 10 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, January 7.

The Antwerp wool sales will commence on the 15th and close on the 18th Inst. The catalogue will comprise 12,440 bales, including 8655 from .Australia,'

It is reported that Mr A, J, Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, is in imminent danger from tlie Invincibles, who are. endeavoring to compass his assassination. He is carefully guarded by detectives. The imports into the United Kingdom last year amounted to £886,500,000, and the exports to L 288,700,000. The New Zealand football team beat the ,Brighthouse Rangers by a goal and a try to nothing..

The accident to the Eev, O.H. Spurgeon took place at Mentone, France, where he was visiting for the benefit of his health. He accidentally fell down stairs, knocking out two of his teeth and loosening three others, and received-a shock to the system,

-_ Naples, January 7. 3lr Gladstone has gone on a visit to Pompeii.

Paws, January 7. Therein considerable excitement in this city, owing to the Eiffel Tower, which is being erected in the Champs de Mars -in connection with the Exhibition-'"'of-1889, visibly declining, consequent on the subsidence of the foundation,Victoria and New Zealand have been required to intimate before 15th January, whether they intend to occupy the space allotted to them at the Paris exhibition. New Yobk, January 7. P. T. Barnuni, the well known entrepreneu, has retired.ou a fortune of ten million dollars. : Sr Petersburg, January 7. Princess Helena, wife of Prince Christian, was driving in a sledge along the Oharkoff Railway when it was overtaken by a train, The driver was killed and the Princess knocked senseless. The train actually passed over her, but she escaped uninjured, Sydney, January 9, Owing to the last outbreak of scab in N6W Zealand, the importation of '' sheep from that colony'has been prohibited for twelve months. .Melbourne, January 1). The postal authorities are arrange ing for the exchange of parcels with New Zealand, Hobnbt, January 0. At the meeting of Parliament the Treasurer's statement shewed a deficiency on the year's account-of L 73,000. The estimated total of the deficiency is L 160,000. The Governrne'nt propose to extinguish the debt by the imposition of an income tax it the rate of 9d in the £ on incomes from property and 4d in the £ on incomes from personal exertions.