NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3170, 3 April 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, April 1. The names of the-vessels which' collided in the Channel on Saturday were the Princess Henrietta and the Comtesse Flandre. The collison took place in mid channel. . It was Prince Jerome and not Prince Victor Napoleon who was on board the mail boat crossing the Straits of Dover when the collision occurred. The vessel was cut in two close to [ Prince Jerome's cabin, arid he bad an extremely narrow escape. -An attendant was drowned, but the Prince himself got off with a few slight bruises. : Prince Jerome was on his way to England, incognito to consult the Emperor Eugenie about the coming elections. The Financial- News attacks the New Zealand Harbor Boards on the ground of omission to publish, accounts. it particularly ridicules the Wairoa Board. In the House of Commons to-day Mr Fenwick's motion that it was expedient that members should receive an honorarium wasrejected. Besides Father McFadden, seventeen men and two women have been committed for trial for complicity tn the murder of Inspector Martin at Uweedore. The Oxford crew complain that the Cambridge crew forced them into shallow water, and if they had not given way a foul must have occured, on which Oxford would have been awarded the race. Mr Albert Bright stands for the vacancy in the Birmingham representation in the -Unionist interest. He

is not likely to be opposed. " _ The Education Department propose to abandon the present system of payment by per centage passes and to substitute giving general grants, to be dependent on the report of the inspectors. The ■ revenue returns for the year show receipts £88,472,000. Paris, April 1. The erection of the Eiffel Tower is completed. Rome, April 1. A bomb was thrown among the congregation in the church of San Carlo yesterday, but exploded without doing any harm. Vienna, April 1. It is reported that the Emperor of Austria is indisposed. Washington, April 1. The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Mr JR. Lincoln as Minister to England. Calcntta, April 1. Tbe Ameer has assured Lord Landsdown, Viceroy of India, that he never thought of taking any warlike action against Russia on his "recent visit to the northern provinces to punish the rebels. A bridge over the Eivor Indus at Sukkur, has been completed and opened.