NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3230, 14 June 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH.:-London,-June 12. The Duke of Portland was married to-day to Miss Dallas York. The ceremony was attended with great brilliancy. The London press in republishing the Melbourne Age's article on Mr. Dillon's mission to Australia, comments on the apathy of the dele gates' reception, and predicts that the tour will be a financial failure. Mr Gladstone addressed a meeting of 85,000 miners at Redruth, in Cornwall. FOREIGN. St. Petjjksburg, June 12. Bombs made in imitation of oranges have been found in various places in the city, and some arrests havo been made in consequence. Paris, Juno 12, The Exhibition is now complete. Madame Melba is to receive £IOOO for four representations at Monte Carlo in February. After completing ing her engagements there, she visits Venice and' the north Italian cities where sho is engaged on the same terms. Madhaß, Juno 12, A thousand deaths from oholera are reported weekly at Gangam, AMERICAN. Chicago, June 12, The coroner's inqueafc on the body of Dr Croniu concluded to-day. Tlie jury returned a verdict that Alexander Sullivan, P, O'Sullivan, Detective. Coughlin and hunk Woodruffe were tho principals and accessors in the murder. A rider was added urging the authorities to offer a reward for tho actual perpetrators of the crime, The jury also declared that the Clan-na-Gael and similar institutions were injurious to American interests, Aloxandor Sullivan has been arrested on a cliargo of murder, Washington, June 12. is a general impression that for tho sake of a concord the United States will agree to nominal damages boing conceded 'to Germany .by Samoa; Nkw Youk, June 12. A Bill has been introduced'into tho Senate of the State Legislature to enable motive- power to be obtained from the Falls of Niagara for electrical purposes. Sydney, June 18. The Government have approved a scheme lor compelling school boys over twelve years of age, to undergo a military training, and after they leave school drafting tliom into senior cadet corps, It is _ stated that the steamer Centennial, which arrived yesterday from Auckland, bumped heavily four or five times- on the night the steamer was'off the North Cape. The bottom was, apparently sandy, The second officer was on the bridge at the time, aud the passengers, aroused by tho shocks, came on deck in great consternation, The boats were made ready for lowering, tho engines reversed, and the vessel got clear, An examination of the, well showed that the vessels were not making any water, and it was decided to continue oil tho course to Sydney, The revenue returns for the first, 6yo months of the year, show a surplus of .^IO,OOO.

The Anglican Synod of Sydney, now in session', is considering the successor to the Primacy of Australia, rendered vacant by the resignation of Bishop Barry, Melbourne, Juno 13. The Cutler case is further complicated by the arrest of a man named Stevens on the charge, of being the real murderer of the Chinaman, Hobabi, June 18.

..A recomniondation has been made to Government to reduce the period of quarantine on cattle imported from New Zealand to thirty days.

Adelaide, 18th June,

Lord Kimtsford has cabled to Government that General Edwards bas been instructed to communicate with tho colonial authorities with reference to the inspection of the colonial forces.

Dr Euliland, of Bavarian Foreign Office, has arrived here. At the request of Princo Bismarck he is making a tour of the world for the purpose of acquiring information regarding commerce, railway administration, land laws, agriculture, and general industries in various countrios,