NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3161, 23 March 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Losbok, March 20.: Truth- comments' on; the, avidity with ; which English clergymen appointed to colonial bishoprics retutn to England when they get the chance, and urges Sydney and Tasmania to provide for themselves, instead of applying to what it calls an English " Jobbing Syndicate," It is reported that the Public Prosecutor at Mentone is applying to have Prince- Alexander's marriage with _ the , opera Binger, Fra'uline Doesinger, quashed on the ground of | fraudulent declaration. The Queen has cancelled the order she had given for a portrait of the Prince. '

Prince Alexander, who is in Servia, has been requested by his mother not to return at present. ' ( : Mr Chamberlain, speaking on the Irish question, said it was time the Government gave proof of their readiness to propose somo substitute for Mr Gladstone's rejected Irish Bill. He urged that a comprehensive arid final scheme of land purchase should precede-auy Local Goverpmeut proposals. ' A steam tramcar was overturned while going.round the curve at Wigan m. Lancashire, and 80 persons were killed or injured. ' The Duke of Cambridge ridicules Lord Wolseley's. advocacy of conscription in England. Paris, March 21.

The new syndicate offers L 45 per ton for. the old syndicates stock.of

copper,, amounting to ISO,OOO tons, on condition tho output of the mines is restricted. Buda-Pbstii, March' 20. During the rioting in this city the Premier, Mr Tisza, and the members of the 'Hungarian Cabinet were assaulted in the stroets. Scenes took place in the' Diet, and troops had to be employed to keep the town quiet. Ottawa, March 20.

A motion in the Canadian House of Commons in favour of a reciprocal tariff with the United States was rejected.'