NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3216, 29 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH. . London, May 27, Lord Knutsford complains that he wasi nundated with applications for Birthday honors, and says that it was impossible to accede to the request of one-twentieth of the applicants. • He regrets that he was unable to give a baronetcy to the Hon. W. M, WoLeay, of Sydney, who was, however, created a Knight Bachelor, A drive in the Abercorn mine at Merthyr -Tyvdil collapsed and imprisoned 58 miners. They were, howevor, safely rescued. The Morning Post ridicules the speeches delivered at Adelaide by Mr John Dillon, one of the Home Bulo delegates, now making a tour in the Australian colonies.

A numbor of Irish' thisers with the Home Eule cause, have sent a telegram to Her Majesty the Queen, protesting against the action of the Marquis of Donegal in evicting tenants on the Queen's Birthday, David Christie Murray, novelist, who contemplates a lecturing tour in Australia, will be banquetted onjhe 7th of June. Edmund Yates, proprietor of_ the World will preside on tho occasion. The leading represontalives.of art, science, and literature will be present. Her Majesty the Queen has .ordered the release of tho convict Garner, aerying a life sentence in Western Australia for murdering his wife aivi mother in Lincolnshire, in the vear 1868, •

The English and American delegates at. tbeSamoan Conference ar6 negotiating with their respective Governments, prior to assenting to a ratification of the protocol dealing with the future' government of Samoa.

It is : alleged that during the crowding which ocourred at the Fire Brigade demonstration at Whitehall on Saturday, the Duke of Cambridge struck a reporter of the New York Sun. The latter has issued a summons against the Duke for assault.

- The Colonisation Committee setup by the House of Commons includes Campbell Bannerman, member for Sterling Burghs; Sir John Colomb, member for. Bow. and Bromley Division; the Eight Hon, C. T, Ritchie, President of the- Loaal Government Board; Sir John Gorst, Political Secretary for India; and William Kedmond, member for Fermanagh North, Tho'Capo Colony is converting its 5 per cent, debentures into' 81 peroent, . ..."■■ '■ ■■;"

May 28. fI.M,S,_ Surprise, 1650' tons, was damaged in a collision and has gone ashore at Syracuse, Island of Sicily, whero she now lies full of water. - FOREIGN. 'Berlin, May 26. _ The Czar of Russia is expected to visit Berlin towards the end of June.

Strikes are'-'spreading throughout Europe.;

The Norddeutsohe Zeitung warns Austria that tho-. extension' of her garrisons in Novi Bazar, between Servia and Montenegro, and the occupation of a town of that name, will be regarded as a casus belli, The contemplated visit of Emperor William and King Humbert of Italy toStrasburg was abandoned at the suggestion of Prince Bisma'rok. The reported intention of tlio Emperor William and King Humbert of Italy as regards visiting Strasburg! is officially denied. .■■■•'!

King Humbert has left for Italy. The'_ farowell between Emperor William and the King was of a most [cordial nature., King Humbert will ! visit the Empress Frqderiqk at Frankfoit on his way home. [ ~ A fire destroyed-the stores at Meek, and a quantity of cotton h% was burned. The damage' is estimated at two- million marks., AFRICAN;

./'. San Franoisco,May26. ; : It is probable' 1 that another meeting will shortly' take place between J. MoAuliffo and Peter Jaoksbn, the Australian pugilist.

Australian.

- : ' Sydnet, Mav 27. ;; During the' last 62, hours, 16 inohea of rain liavf Men, precedentedly/ .heavy'."-. .dowiipour. has' been: loneS tbp

low'lying'parts of the oity and' country, telegraphs and railways being interrupted. ■ It is'blowing terrifically along the coast t and many coasting vessels are overdue. All the rivers aro rising lhpidly, and severe floods are anticipated in tho country. The omnibus running to Canterbury, a Bmall town on Cook's Eiver, six miles from Sydney, was washed away this after* noon, and a boy named Price was drowned. The other passongers w'ere roscued with difficulty. There is no sign of any abatement in the weathor. '

Melbourne, May 27. ' Floods in Numurkah and Yarrawonga district have assumed unparralleled proportions. The whole of the Lower Goulburn Valley is covored with water. The town of Numurkah is surrounded by water, and hundreds ofacres of forward ciops are destroyed. The township of Nathalia,„ld£ miles from Numurkah, is in danger of being overwhelmed.