NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3153, 14 March 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

LoKDojj,.March 11. Dr Sellon, of London,who abducted Miss Wilcox, his niece, an American heiress, early, in February last, lias been sentenced to eight months imprisonment. ' • In the. Houso of lords, the Earl of Carnarvon has introduced Mb Bill providing for the disqualification of peers guilty of certain offences, Creagh, a landlord, was shot dead while driving to church at Quin, County Clare, on Sunday last. His sister, who accompanied him, had the tip of her nose shot off,

The R.M.S. Rimutaka sailed from Plymouth at Midnight on Saturday. Her mails were delayed by the floods in the west of England,'

Copper is now quoted at £SB por : ton, and shows signs of rallying, the financiers having como to the rescue : of the syndicate and arranged with the mines for the suspension of the output for two months, It is expected that this will havo the effect of raising the minimum price to £O7 per ton,

March 12, in the House of Commons,.Mr Stanhope, Under-Secretary for War, said that lie hoped the work of arming all the British coaling stations would be completed before the end of the year. Large contracts for heavy guns had been granted to Yickers, of Sheffield. It was possible even now to provide coaling stations with substantial mine defences in two days, and in three days they could be put in a state to offer considerable resistance to hostile cruisers. ■ - Ottawa, 12th March. • The. Canadian Government has agreed to grant a subsidy of £IO,OOO to the Canadian Pacific ■.'Company's line of. steamers. '.',.".'■•: Calcutta, 12th March, The Ame9r declares that, notwithstanding the statements circulated by hisenemi.es, he is hostile .to tho designs of liussia. •