NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3158, 20 March 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

'■ London, Maroh 18. Ji. L, Oatew, M.P, for North ' y Kildare, who was recently sentenced m to four months' imprisonment -was . ™ forcibly- stripped on- Ms refusing to wear gaol clothes, and .remained in his cell naked for four days; . ~ - The manager of an hotel at Bath; obtained L3OOO damages . against ~ Arthur Willoiighbyr. a newspaper corespondent, who reported-that a v sensational robbery and 1 attempted murder, had occurred at . the hotel. Sir E. B. Malet represents Great Britain and Count Herbart Bjemarck; and Herr Krasel' Germany' at the. Sanioan-Conference.

Mary Anderson, the well-known American actress, is in a precarious state of health. -

The Jjlue Spur Company'is issuing £IO,OOO wbrth of debentures at a quarter per cent discount. Mr J. 0, Brown, who visited England for the. purpose of negotiating the sale of the jL property, is being-made tlie subject Tp of attaoksiiitho financial organs, W Obituary—Lady~«Arnold, wife "of W'Sir Edwin Arnold; Rev'J. L. Porter, • D.D,,. President of the Queen's College, Belfast.

Paris, March 18. By a colliery' explosion in the Department of Gard, in South France, fifteen lives were lost.

The Rothschilds and Credit Fonoier have offered five million francs to help the Comptoir d'Escompte.

The Bank of Falvaude and Company at Le Mars has suspended payment, The liabilities amount to several million francs.; Oaiuo, March 18. ;■? ~ It is reported that El Senouissi has ] defeated the Malidi. . ' > SYDNE\vMarchlO, ■! Wheat is quiet at 5s lOd. ' ' Adelaide, March' 0. . Wheat 6s 8d; very firm. Sellers -Jt. ask 6s fid. . *

In reply to a letter from Way Lee, a Chinese merohant, the Chinese Ambassador at London says'it has been deoided to hold a Conference between England and -China shortly to consider the immigration question. He requests Way Lee to petition the Governments of New South : Wales and Queensland to remove the border tax on Chinaman passing from one colony to another. If this does not meet with favorable response the Ambassador advises that urgent appeals should be made to the British Government. He says that China objects to her subjects being taxed at all.

Melbourne, March 19, Harrison, who weis exeoaled yesterday for the murder of,' John Dug'gan near Elmore,.stated that'a man named Cordine, who . was' - executed four years ago for a murder at Deniliquin, in New South Wales, was innocent. Harrison, however, did not reveal anything further. -Brisbane, March 19. , . Tlia schooner Northern Belle, ■, whioh was wrecked at Banks' Group,, struok on a, reef with a terrific shock and foundered immediately, amid a : . scene of wild confusion. The natives ; looted the survivors, who effected their esoape with great difficulty, '