NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3185, 22 April 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

Si'- " ' ; ; vLoheoh, April 19.'-. 4iSir F. Napier Broome, Governor of Western Australia, in a. despatoh forwarded to Lord Knutsford,'Secretary of State for the colonies suggesta .that £1,000,000 Bhouldbe spent in establishing a ; National scheme for cplonising-the south-weßtera cornerof that colony,l and expresses the opinion that the soheme would prove highly '. successful, as the larger the operation Ihe" more Velf-supporting would the soheme likely to become..'

Information has been received from British Honduras that an English' missionary, the Bey Mr Hobson, arid wife; and lady companion of the latter, who resided on Buatanlsland, situated on Honduras Bayj havebeen brutally murdered by a native aer-'* vant, and the bodies of the victims horribly mutilated. v. A settlement having been arranged in connection with the Yandaleur estates in Ireland, the tenants have been reinstated on the farms, amid great rejoicings. : Advices from Zanzibar strengthen the suspicion that the German Emin Bey Expedition was undertaken with ulterior designs, and that the supposed relief is only a subterfuge. St. Petertburo, April 19.

Miss Florence Menkmeyer, a native of Melbourne, whose abilities as:a pianist and composer have elicited great admiration on the Continent has been.playing before the Czar at Satscrjina-.' ;; ■■•■.■--■'*. ■-;•"' ■'■'■'■'_-:'■<■)■■' ; Brussels, April 19.; At a meeting of -the friends arid adherents offioulanger it was decided to remain as passive as possible during the;time;;the : Paris Exhibition is opdn; Largo donations are being received from Boulanger's sympathisers,

'.;. . . •. Berlik, April 19.: Prince Bismark in a despatoh to Herr Steubel, the recently appointed German. Consul at Samoa, says he holds Dr : Enappe '(formerly German Consul at Apia) responsible for the evils resulting from the military aotion prompted by him on the 17th December last, which needlessly imperilled the peace of Germany with America. The Chancellor states'that Germany has no orders to give the Samoan natives about their own. affairs, as the German mission to Samoa is restricted to protecting German subjects, and enabling.them to develop commerce, The despatch .instructs the German naval commanders to use their, own discretion' when' requisitioned; for force' by the Consuls, unless tho requests of the latter are supported by direct authority froin.the. German Foreign Office.