NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3233, 18 June 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGWSH..: London, June 16. In consequeuco of the refusal of the ' Provost o( Edinburgh to attend the •ercinony of conferring the freedom of the city on Mr Pamoll, the Senior Magistrate will perioral the ceremony..' .■'.'.'■' A vessel just arrived reports passing the barque StafJH on firo aud I abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean, The Vulcan, scrow torpedo depot, 8 guns, 6620 tons, was successfully launched at Portsmouth. Madame Melba will' sing at' n Gonrt'coucert pii'tho 28th inst. There is ii poor demand for New Zealand hemp. Sixteen hundred bales wero offered at to day's auction; Bixty bales only were sold, at prices ranging from £29 to L3l. . FOREIGN. Berlin, 16th June. The nativo rulers of Samoa will shortly be invited to declare their adhesion to the treaty jnst concluded by the delegates at tho x Samoan Conference. Several pravisions of the treaty will come into operation before the formal ratification by the Powers concerned is concluded. Pahis, Juno 16. The examining committee liaro forwarded to the Procureur-General a report of its proceedings, in which further action against General Boulanger is urged. Madame Melba scored a brilliant success in Ibo character of Juliet, and in the balcony scene was thrice recalled. Australian. Meibournu, June 17. Many families are flooded out at Casterton, a town on the main road from Adelaide' to Melbourne, and , distant from tbo last named place 270 miles. Two men named Swannoy and Grow wero drowned. The premises of Sclireiber and Soliafer, German importers, were destroyed by fire last night. The damage is estimated at £80,000,' and the insurances amount lo 121,000.