NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3208, 18 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

London, May 15. It is reported that Colonel Sartjond, of Melbourne, will receive the honor of Knight Commander of Bt Michael and St George on Hor Majesty's birthday, *

It is likely that Mr Garner, of the finn.of Williamson, Garner and Musgrove, will engage Mrs Langtry for a three months' tour in Australia, ' _ : Paris, May 16. M, Janisen,.director of the Mendoza Observatory, declare), that experiments made at the top ot the Eiffel Tower have proved that there is no oxygen in tho atmosphere of the sun. '

Bight thousand shares of the now Cp&iptoir d Esoompß de Paris, which were placed in the market have been subscribed two-fold.

Truth again asserts that Lord Carrington, of Now South Wfiles, will resign in a year, The same paper states that it is probable the Bishopric of Sydney, rendered vacant by the acceptance of ])r Barry of the! Coadjutofship See of Rochester, will not bei filled up for a yeaiyand that the 1 Eight Eev Samuel Thornton, D.D., Anglican Bishop of Ballarat, is ;seekiug preferment i n England. /

II is reported that Mr Sherington Alexander,' formerly of' Ausiraliti, is the anonymous donor ofLloo,ooo for the: establishment of a National p 0 ttrait Gallery, referred lo by the Warquia of Salisbury in the course of his speech at the opening of the Bovul Academy Annual Exhibition on ihe 7th of May. _Mr John Blaebett, recently appoinod Consulting Engineer in London to the Government of New Zealand, lias assumed the duties of the position, •

CoNSTiMiNoi'LE, May 16. 1 ' The Porto is ynvj jealous of the 1 - Fiench political activity ingSyiia. 'Berlin, 1 May 16. "*'■< II is expected tliat the Conference now sitting on Samoan affairs will advieo the establishment of '.a dual • .*■ control over tho native St. Petersburg, May 15flB ■ Nasir ed Din, Bhah of- Persia,.® v.'vu arrived here on a visit to the Czar, - and was. accorded a splendid recep- •; tion.

Berlin, May 15. The stiike in Westphalia is spreading to Wassenherg and Aix la Ghapclle ; .in the Shine 5 May ,16,' Prince Bismarck is said to be much \ * concerned at the spread of the strike. ■ in Westphalia, which have been evi- . dently originated by.' a wide, and " effective organisation; As 'the out- i v come of the strike, large quantities of ' coal, coke, and iron, are being. purchased in England for ÜBe in Germany. ~■■■