NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3165, 28 March 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

LondDn,-March 26,

■ A meeting of Orangemen has been held at Liverpool to iuiliate a party uninfluenced .by political parly considerations, and to vote only on Protestant grounds. The chairman of the meeting accused Lord Salisbury of systematically, ignoring claims of Evangelical clergymen is distributing patronage. ". ■

. Sir C. Russell denies that he received Pigott's letter stating he could not stand the ordeal of crossexamination until after his flight. Sir R. Webster declared lie handed it to

him two (not five) days.bsfore Figott was'called up for examination. Mr 0. Raikes, Postmaster-General, apologised to the House of Commons for the necessity of answering Mr Henniker ileaton's trivial questions on postal matters, and the latter in consequence gave notice to move.a vote ot censure on the Minister, [The Bothchilds have issued a Russian loan of £27,500,000. The next series of wool auctions opens on May 2nd, and will close on May 11. ' Mr Gladstone will- preside at the

banquet to Mr Parnell on-April 11. Mr Howard Smith, on behalf of the Melbourne projectors, is promoting a bank to be iwmed the London and Melbourne Bank, instead of the Bank of England and Australia, as formerly proposed, with a capital of £2,000,000. The well known firm of Barings will undertake the floatiug. of the Company if they approve tho details of the prospectus. Mr Westgarth, tho financier, read a paper at the Colonial Institute advocating that in future the colonies should issue .3 per cent loans, He blamed Mr Burns, ex-Treasurer of

New South, Wales, for issuing thai

colony's last loan with irregular dates for the payment of interest, which he considers depraiates tho value of the stock.

Berlin, March 26. A new law, aimed against the Socialists, has been submitted to the Reichstag. It provides heavy penalties for inciting class against class and attacks on social order. Thepross protests against the measure. Eome, March 26. The Pope is suffering from repeated fainting fits. Ottawa, March 25. The Canadian authorities have decided to re-issue fishing licensee to foreigners under the present modus viyendi.