NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3134, 20 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

I London, February 18. of the South"; Australian loan: .bns been, subscribed, ard the lonmmder withdrawn, •It is stated that -Sir Julius ,Vogel will resign his seat for Ohnatoluirob North, and that he will retire: from Colonial politics Lord Onslow will be- investedwith tho Order of Knight Grand Cross Si St.Miohael and St, George by; Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor to-day. • .The Marquis of Aylesbury ■.has instituted proceedings-la the Divorce: Couit against his wife Madrid, February 18. ■: The Spanish Government -has issued, a proclamation restricting the laudingof foreigners atthe Plnllipine Islands

Berlin, February 18 - .Captain Wiseman, who has sailed on a special mission to tha-Zanzibar coast, is enlistmg Egyptians for seri vice-there under the German flag. ;

: : It is understood - that Prince Bismarck is agreeable to : the establishment: of a joint control > over - Samoa by Great Britain, the-United States, and Germany, and is willing that Germany - should■; discontinue, operations m Samoa, pending the decision iof the Conference which will shortly ibo held - m this city on Samoan afiau's. Tho-Chancellor, /however,stipulates that his consent to these ooui'ses is conditional on -the ovacnatioivof German properties m Samoa,and the dehmitation of boundaries.

■ Buda Pesth, February 18. i ' The Emperor Francis Joseph will pay a visit-to" William of Germany m May next. ... i ' A meeting' attended by 80,000 people • held in'i-his -. city passed. a resolution protesting .against ■ the provisions of the Army Bill now. before tho Hungarian Parliament. ! - - i ■- Pams, February 18. M. Meline, having formed a Ministry, proposes to pass the Budget and prorogue Parliament till after: the close'of the exhibition. '

General Billott has accepted the portfolio of War in the new' Ministry, but several portfolios ■ remain unallotted. " '

The President, M. Sadi-Camot, is pressing M. de Freyoinet, who was Minister of War in the last Ministry, to accept the portfolio of Foreign Affairs.' - The Ministry , is generally considered weak, and not likely to last long.

A deputation of the various Executive Commissioners of tbe Paris Exhibition waited upon, President Carnot and urged him to endeavor to promote a political truce until the Exhibition is closed, in order, that the success of the undertaking may not be interfered with by possible political changes.