NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3128, 13 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

-LonDok, Fobruary 11. A panic has been caused among the Australians residing in Great Britain owing to five hundred of them having been summoned by the Income Commissioners for the tax ou income. It-is reported that the authorities engaged the services of a spy for the purpose of gaiuing; information as to the financial position of the Australians. It is asserted that Mr O'Brien is in a precarious state of health, but Mr Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, ridicules the idea.

A meeting was held in Hyde Park to protest against the imprisonment of Mr O'Brien, but the proceedings, were interrupted by a snowstorm. Father M'Fadden is charged with complicity in the murder of Inspector Martin, who was killed /while effecting the arrest of the rev gentleman. : /Vienna, February 11;111 his letter to Hie Duke of Braganza, Prince Rudolph wrote: " Dear friend, I must die; I cannot do otherwise, Keep well and happy, Rudolph." - .

, The young Baroness Yeisera, in the letter left addressed to her mother, wrote.:; "Dear mother, I die with Rudolph:. We love' one another too much. Forgive me. Farewell. Thy unhappy Ma?ie." c ' . : - ' ' Paws, February 11. .:■ It is expected the Seriate will reject the revision scheme..

General Boulanger has put forward proposals including, amongst other things, the election of a. President" on tbe American system, with a longer term of office. : Washington, February. 11, , .■ The United, States Government insislts on Germany holding its hand in Samoa pending the deliberations of the proposed Conference, :'..■. Mr. Pendleton, ■ the American Minister at Berlin,'will preside over the Conference. '■;''"'■ :'■,... "''■. Caiiio," Februaryli, ' El Senouissi has captured El Qbeid, /The Mabcli'is in a state of great alarm at tbe progress he is making. ... Oaiouita, February 11. ' ■ News to baud iromßurmah states that-the British forces captured a stockade at B,hano, defended by QQO Becoits, losing five lulled and twelve wounded only in tho assault. Advices from Afghanistan; report that the Ameer has entered Turkestan with. 500Qtroops.'TheChiefs' of Eajpootana are cordiaUyjqmirig.tlie.soiieine

*' :'■■■ >■£■ M Sydnbyj February 12.;^: : "■: A typhoid epidemic has broken Gut : at Balraiiald, situated ori;; the hbrbli : baukoftlie MurrimbidgeeHis4 miles' ,S.W;bfSydney.: ■;-;;■:.;^ ; : .■Abortion of the. English; uiaiivia 'Frisco, destined fov (Melbourne,- took fire while being .conveyed by the express train, Thepre ? tinguished[and it is understood that little.damage:.ihiis;heeh'done, : ; It is It is believed- that the oduseof the fire was some'combustible'matter in brie'of the bags. ' W v'J' --V \A .': ■ In several of- the country: districts the farmers' are in great difficulties owing to the crops failing through .drought, ■ and have applied;; to; GO; vernment -'; fo r: assistance, 's ".-. .the direction of supplying wheaYjfleeil; for next season's crop. . : ;-Cv-a ; I.' The Eastern I Seine, 'which-brought ou't'Hhe.neW; cable:which is.to be laid-between Java and 'the Northern 'p'oftibnlof Western Australia, left Singapore for Banjoewangiyestertiay.^:^?;!

.■'■', Perth; February, 12i<J;>' : The Government-; haw the new cable , • MELBoußHEi; ; i*ebruary;i,2;;:;. ! : • lit Lachalj 'the.. : prbrninentsland syndicator, has failed, £880,000; His statement shows a surplus-of £OB,OOO. He attributes his position to the land boom. ' ' - ; : ';.-■■ : ;^.. :

Albany, February 12. Mr Herbert Gladstone is, apas: sengee -by the s.s. Austral which arrived from Plymouth yesterday. Adelaide, February 12, The steamer Coorang, whioh went ashore at Sisters-Beef, has been floated off.

The Government guarantee-an income of £IOOO per annum to the new cable, provided supremacy of Port Darwin route is maintained, BRiSBANE,-February 12. News from New Guinea states that the murderer of Captain Aucell, of the schooner Star of Peace, has been hanged in the presence of 1000 natives, .