NEWS BY CABLE.
. London,,4th March. Mr Gladstone, who has been suffering from a stroke of paralysis, is recovering. Sir Thomas Gladstone, brother to the ex-Premier, is seriously ill, and his condition is causing anxiety to bis friends. A rumour comes from the German seaport of Kiel to the effect that a conflict has taken place at Samoa. An Amerioan warship is sppposed to have first fired a blank cartridge, tbe German ship Olga replying with ball. Neither, the' Amerioan nor the German Legation in London is able to confirm the rumour. The . Standard, referring to the recent disclosures before the Times* Parnell Commission, advocates the duties, of the Commissioners be terminated, A. letter, was found among Pigott's effects addressed to Mr Labouchere stating that-all the first, batch of letters were genuine, but' that the second batch included several forged. He also : stated that lie would conform to Mr Labouchere's instructions. , Madrid, 4th March. After'the body of Pigott had been identified, the British Ambassador had it interred.
Australian. Sydney, March 6. ; The ■ Government statist reports that the wheat yield is only 6.1 bushels to the atre. The total for the golony is 1,540,000 bushels, being a 'deficiency of three and a quarter millions on the average for the past twenty seven years. The drought also caused an . estimated loss : in other cereals of 900,000 bushels. , The requirements of the colony are estimated at 8,100,000 bushels, leaving a deficiency- of 6,560,000 bushels., It is estimated that Victoria. and .South Australia will only have available for export 4,600,000 bushejs between them. New South Wales and. Queensland (which also has to import most of its flour) will therefore have to-look to New Zealand, arid, probably to America to supply their deficiency. ■ Bribbune, March 6.
Out of; revenge for dismissal, a butcher named Hodginson fired twice at' Ernest . Hungerfard, a i medical-student of Sydney University who was visiting his brother's station at Croydon;,lt is.believed the. wound will prove fatal,'
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3146, 6 March 1889, Page 2
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