NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3179, 13 April 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

London, April 11, Three hundred leading city men gave ut banquet to Mr W. H, Smith last night, In the course of his speech in reply to the toast of the evening, the leader of the House of Commons said he felt confident the cause of the the Union would bo triumphant if tho merchants, bankers, and manufacturers supported it. He declared the obstructionists in tbe House of Commons were trying to exhaust the physical strengtli of Ministers, Mr Balfour, Irish Secretary, also spoke during the evening, and taunted the leaders of tho Opposition with being impotent to control their followers below tho gangway. The Tasmanian Main Line Company has notified tho Committee of the Stook Exchange that it will oppose a quotation being granted for the Government loan, It is not thought the opposition of the Company is likely to affect the floating of the loan, Vienna, April 11. Eussia is massing troops on the Austrian frontier. Sydney, April 12, The return of breadstnffs for the week show that 1400 tons of wheat were imported from New Zealand, a quantity double that received from any'other colony, Adelaide, April 12. Mr John Dillon received an enthusiastic and brilliant reception in this city. The campaign of tho Irish visitors begins to-night.