NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3122, 6 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, February 4. . Tho steamer Neroid; of Newcastle, came into collision off Dungeness with the ship Killocliar, which left Lyttelton for London on. October 20. The foroeof tho ijWk was bo. great that both vessels were badly injured and sank, In all 24 persons lost their lives, 17 of them belonging to the Killoohar. • Sir A. Clarke in a letter to the Times protests- against the proposals to Bpend large sums of money on .fortifications for London as a mere pretext to starve the navy. The latter, he insists, is the real aud proper defence of tho Empire. Mr A. J. Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, in a speech at Dublin, claimed that outrages and boycotting in Ireland hid greatly decreased under the .present administration,'.-and he hoped shortly to proceed with the extension of' a drainage system, and also to assist: in, the extension of railways with a view to developing tho fisheries..

' Father McFadden, for whom the I police have i been, searching for some time, .was ; arrested;, yesterday at Gweedore, .where he had;been con'ducting mass. The arrest took place immediately mass was ovoi', and. the cetigregation desperately, resisted the rev gentleman being taken, into custody. /Ih the struggle Inspector Martin, of the Police Force, was killed. ■ February 5. : j Mr, Sexton, M.P., returned his cards of invitation to the official levee sent from Dublin Castle. . Immense meetings are being held in Dublin and elsowhcre, to protest against the treatment of Mr O'Brien, Mr J. E;- Cox, member for East Clare, has been sentenced to four' months' imprisonment, on a charge of

inciting,. The Times.'in an article on the Samoan question, says the attitude of England is searet aud suspicious, and it is essential that tbe line of action sho intends to take should be divulged. The Times considers it a matter for regret that the defence of freedom should have devolved on the United States, and expresses fear that there will bp ut repetition of the New Guinea fiasco unless the views of the Aus-. tralasian Colonies are upheld, Berlin, February i. The German Press advocate a retreat from the attitude taken "up by Germany at Samoa. Vienna, February 1, The body of Prince Rudolph is lying in stale publicly. The funeral, which will bo private, takes place to-morrow, The Emperor ot Germany will not be allowed to attend, even informally. The evidence shows that Prince Hndolph's suicide was premeditated, The Archduke Charles is delaying his formal renunciation of the succession, there being a possibility of a posthumous heir being born, Paris, February 4. The Government are dismissing officials suspeoted ofßoulangerist tendencies, Brussels, February 4, By a railway accident, near this city 14 people were killed and 50 injured.

Australian. Sydney, February 5, News has been received that bloody intertribal lights are raging among tho natives of the Solomon group. In one instauce thirty men women and children were massacred, The coastal tribes are fighting with the natives of the interior, who are raiding the former, carrying off cattle, etc, The loss of life is considerable and cannibalismis rampant. Brisbane. February 5.

_ Swarms of caterpillars are devastating the grass in the Cairns .: district, Melbourne February 5.

During the glove fight between Slavin and Burke, the police rushed the ring and prevented it being brought to a termination, Blaviu would probably have been declared the winner, •'

A cyclone at Castlemaine did great damage to the fruit crop. Heavy floods have again occurred in the vicinity, but there has been no loss of life, _