NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3130, 15 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, February 12. i •..!■ Lord Shorbrooke is in failing health. > ■.:Lord,Cbiof Justice Coleridge, lias expressed himself as strongly opposed to the practice of indictment for libel except in cases where great public questions are are involved. . ...' ■ The, Right Hon J.- Chamberlain, .speaking Vat Glasgow, said it was impossible fir America to recogiiise the claims of' other nationalities rl'o Samoa', and England was in the same ■ position as America. Whatever : might bo the form of local government, neither England ■nor America could allow an outside Power to usurp the governmentibf the island, : -

February. 18. -The Committee of the Imperial Institute have received large 'amounts of the funds subscribed - for- the Institute iii New South Wales fstb.^, 1 ; Mr Chamberlain received a'great reception at the meeting in Glasgow. In the course of his address > he declared the adoption of the reform programme which lie-had advocated at Birmingham : /would ; salvation of the Unionist pafty^iS; Mr Firth, for a long time identified 1 with the municipal government, 'of the City, has been appointed deputychairman of the County Council, - Before the Times-Pamell Commission Sir H. James, stated that Miohael Davitt had borrowed 'funds subscribed for skirmishing to found the National League, . Prime New Zealand frozen mutton has advanced to 4|d. - Money is hardening, owing to the Stock Exchange settlements,': ■

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's 4 per cent debentures ate quoted at 97. Wool remains very firm, The series closes on 19th February. The American demand is good. Crossbreds and merinos are strong. • Calcutta, February 18. - Dhuleep Singh lias issued a proclamation'to the natives 'of India, promising that if provided with four million sterling, lie will equip a volunteer army to free India. He states that he is convinced that the Sikhs, Irish soldiery, and 90 per cent of the native princes, would join him in the revolt.

Berlin, February 18. The Defence Department have adopted the Austrian Manulioher repeating rifle.

Vienna, February 12. A goldworker in this city has poisoned his family of five children, and then committed suicide by taking poison.

Paris, February 12. Since tho failure of the Panama Canal Company, M. de Lesseps lias greatly aged, the shock having had a severo effect on his health.