NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3215, 28 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH. London, May 26,. It is reported that Mr Duckworth,' nEochdale millowner, assaulted tbo Rev 0, Spurgeou, son of tbo eminent Unptißt minister, on • board the Mariposa, for paying attentions to bis wife on the voyatje fiom Auckland to 'Frisco,

■ At the Fire Brigade parade at Whitehall yesterday, the police control was very deficient. The carriage of the Prince of Wales was mobbed and the Princess of Wales was unable to distribute thoprizea. Lord Normandy, Sir Hercules Robinson. Sir George Bowen, Sir William Jervois, Sir Henry Loch, and the Agents-General, dinedyesterday with Lord Knuisford. , - Madame Melba, .the Australian cantatrioe, was jdeluged with jewels and presents by her admirers during her-itay on the Continent. She received £2lO a month at Brussels, £4OO a month at the Paris Opera House, und oventnallj refused £BOO a month at the Paris Gaiete. She sings in London in June, and returjs to Paris for the winter.

Captain Murrell, of the Missouri and bis crew were presented at the Mansion House yesterday with medals and £IOOO, in recognition of their gallant conduct in rescuing the Danish immigrants, Tuey Lad a splendid reception, The will of the Into' John' Bright has been proved at .under £86,000. Among the recipients of Birthday honours are Mr Justice Dodds, of Tasmania, and Mr M'Ellery, Government Astronomer, of Melbourne, who have been created O.M.G.'s,

Among the recipients of Birthday honours is the Hon. Wm, Maclcay, M.L.0., of New South Wales, who has been created a Knight Bachelor. The opinion in rowing circles'at present is that the race between Searle and O'Connor will he dose, but end in favor of O'Connor.

Mr Psotta, the American amateur champion sculler, has arrived in London,

FOREIGN.

Paws, May 26. Tho French delegate from Tahiti explains that Tibuai (Austral) Islands too annexed in consequence of Raratonga seeking British protection. The Chamber has deoided to remove the remains of M. Carnot, grandfather of the President and one of thegreat figures of the Revolution, Francis Morceau, a young general of great promise, who was killed in 1796, and Deputy Baudin, to the Pantheon.

Eojie, May 25. Signor Orispi, the Premier, declines to deny the existence of a military convention between Germany and Italy, He deems ■it sufficient to merely state that the alliance is very strong.

Berlin, May 26. The Emperor William and King! Humbert have abandoned their! proposed visit to Strasburgh in consequence of tlio irritation which the announcement of the visit has caused in France, -AUSTBALIAN. Sydney, May 27. By a fire at Eedfern last night a woman named Nelson was burned to death. Two other inmates of the burning building had a very narrow escape,

i It is still raining very heavily, The downpour beingof more than ordinary severity, many .of tho suburbs are flooded. . ..;