NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3101, 11 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Paeis, January 8. The Panama Canal contractors are accepting shares in the Panama railway as a temporary guarantee.

Washington, January 8, The Senate has, by torty-nine to three, adopted the motion brought forward by Mr G. F, Edmunds, senator for Vermont, declaring .that the Senate disapproves of any European Government having control over the Panama Canal, as it would be injurious to American interests, and requesting the President to express to the European Powers the views entertained by the Senate upon the question.

New York, January 8. Kilrain and-Sullivan will fight-for the championship of the world at New Orleans in July, the money stake being 20,000d015.

Suakiji, January 8. Colonel Kitchener has assured the various tribes that it is not his intention to attack them, and ho hoped that peace would be maintained and trade revived, He has invited the sheiks to come and consult him. London, January 8.

Mr A. J. Balfour, Secretary -for Ireland, has intimated to the Irish priests that in future tho military will thoroughly protect the police when the latter are enforcing evictions, He adds that no parleying will ensue after those resisting eviction have been warned and called upon to vacate their homesteads.

Prince Henry of Battenberg has been appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight,

The Board of Trade returns show that there has been a revival of trade during the past year,

- St Cloud, the residence of the Hon. Peroy Wyndham, has been'destroyed by fire, and the loss is estimated at £IOO,OOO.

9th January. The R.M.S. Aorangi arrived at Plymouth to-day from Now Zealand. Her passengers have arrived all well, and her cargo of moat is in good condition,

Capetown, 7th January, The B.M.S. Kaikoura sailed for New Zealand via Hobart yesterday. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency' Company have received the following telegram from their London office, dated Bth instant [—Frozen Meat—Mutton— The market, is steadier. Canterbury is wqrth 3|d and Wellington 3fd per ,lj}. New Zpaland Beef—There is little demand| and quotations are gnojuipjpfj. t ■ • ■ Brisbane, 9th January, A torrible explosion tflqjt pjip today at tho dynamite magazine at Clonourry.- Several buildings in the yipinitj; were seriously damaged, but no fatalities' Ste reported.