NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3182, 17 April 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

London, April 15, j .At"a meeting of the members of ! thenar, Sirß.E. Webster, Attorney- [ General, was received with' great • enthusiasm.. _>_ The steamers Libra and Stain'oliffe ' came into collision off Boston, a sea port in Lincolnshire, l'he Libra sank and the Stainoliffe was considerably damaged,, ■ ■ Sir B.Dillon Bell has agreed to aot in trust for debonture holders of the New Zealand Midland Bailway. Paris, April 15. It is proposed to re form the Comptoir d'Escompto with a capital of forty million francs. It is expected that the Judicial Committee appointed by the Senate to enquire into thegroundafor prosecuting General Boulanger, CountDillon, and Henri Eochefort, will not bring up their report for a month. The Senate has voted one million francs for fetes to be held in connection with the opening of the Exhibition,

The Committee appointed by the Senate to ascertain the grounds of prosecuting [General Boulanger will examine 10,000 documents, newspaper, artioles, visiting cards and Boulangist songs. General Boulanger will be charged with'seduoing the allegiance of the officers of the army, with embezzling while occupying the position of Minister of War, and for makiug n seditious speech on the eva of the election of President Carnot, Berlin, Apiil 15. A Berlin syndicate is arranging to start a German Bank at Sydney. Tho German warship Alexandrine will replace the Sophie in Samoan waters in July next. Geoege To™ (Demerara), April 15. The negroes looted tho shops of the Portuguese traders. Tho rioting lasted four days, when a war vessel arrived and quelled the rising. Many of the ringleaders were arrested.