NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3262, 22 July 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH. London, July 14, In the house of Commons to-day Sir George Campbell, member for lulr,caldy, gayij notice of motion rejecting the ißill giving fesponsiblo government to Western Australia. The flection for 'meniber' for JJriitbn (Lambeth),' vacated "by the death ofMar/juis Carmarthen, took place Way'wlwn J%gaii,'a' Homj) Rule candidate, was returned jjy a majority of 1719 over Drummond, the Conservative nominee.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. Auckland, July 20. An American rifle team arrived in London on June 27, and wore banquoted the same night by the Ancient ami Hononrablo Artillory Company. The Springfield cotton mills at Oldham were burned down on Juno

27. The loss is estimated at £IOO,OOO. J The steel torpedo depot ship Yulcau was launched at Portsmouth on June L 3, She is G220 tons' burden and of

1200 horse power. Tho Vulcan is ntended to accompany the Fleet and :arry a largo equipment of torpedo boats.

While }Mr Gladstone was passing trough the town of Wadbridge,

Cornwall, on June 13, a missilebelieved to be a live cartridge —was at his carriage. It did no harm, Ten steamships suiled from the Mersey on June 14, with a full crew procured outside the ranks of tho strikers. The seamen's Union refused to order tho strike off, but is virtually beaten. The shipowners at Newcastle are organising to protect themselves, Thosliip owners of Liverpool unanimously refused on Juno 18th to grant the advance of w'age3 demanded by the striking seamen, . The Transatlantic Steamship Company, whose vessels run between Liverpool and New York, fitted up a vessel, and moored it on the Mersey, in which nou-TJnion seamen were boarded

•ing tho time tho steamers were

in port with police protection, J Andrew Carnegie, tho American millionaire, gave a banquet in honor of Mr and Mrs Gladstone at the Hotel Metropole, London, on June 18th. The diningroom was profusely decorated with colors, showing the flags of England and the United States conjoined. There were thirty guests present.

Mt John ¥, Mackay's London solicitors have begun proceedings against two well-known papers in that city for libel, with a view io putting a stop to the periodical attnoks of their enemies. Mr Mackay is one of the | Bonanza priuces of California, and is residing in London at present,

Tho Queen will in future permi

forced ladies, who are thomselve<

blameless, to enter her presence. This indulgence lias caused a rush to court. An amalgamation of the cattle and fresh meat interests of T, C. and Joseph Eastaan of New York, and and John Bell of Loudon, Glasgow, and Liverpool, was effected on June

i, and tho stock ol tho now concern,

known as Eastman's (Limited) has been subscribed for in London. The capitalisation is £IOO,OOO. The business in which Bell and Sons are engaged is in selling meat'shipped to Great Britain, principally from America, Australia, New Zealand

and River Plate. • Tho firm has tho largest trade in dressed meat in Great Britain.

Modification havo been made in Russian import duties. The duty on raw wool, shoddies and worstod is raised 25 per cent, on starch 7 per cent, on wax 25 per cent, The

tariff on rice is lowered 20 per cent. Germany has made a demand on Franco, according to Lb Soliel of tho 19th June, for compensation for the arrest of an alleged spy named Lechimer near Belfort, in the department of Haut Rhine, on Whit Sunday. Mons Persico, according to tho Pall Mali Gazette, reported to the Popo on the 21st June that he had proofs of the intention of certain parties to kill him should he return to Ireland,

The Council of Switzerland decided to borrow 1G,000,000 francs, with which to purchase repeating rifles for the army,

The Russian army is to be equipped with now rifles of small calibre, manu factored in France, The chief sensation in London toi

the week ending Juno 22 was over the Prince of Wales' leper. London took exceptional interest in the circumstances surrounding tbe death of Fathor Daniien, the missionary priest at the leper colony of Molokai, in the Sandwich Islands, Tho Prince, in his speech at a meeting to consider a scheme for tbe foundation of a leper hospital, declared their was a leper employed in a London meat market, At this a fearful outcry was made by tho butchers, and columns of protests wero crowded into the papers until the identity of the man was revealed, Ho proved to be a native Englishman, who bad never been out of the country, and who made a living by peddling oxtails. Ho is an undoubted leper, The Princess Stephanie, whose husband Rudolph of ..Austria iommittcdsuicide, will soon bo able to go to Vienna, (says a London despatch of Juno 22) and to the Austrian Court, which she detests. According to law sho is obliged to remain in tho capital as long as there is aprobability of a posthumous heir being born. At the end of a fixed term she will take up her residence in a villa on Lake Lucerne. The house in which the young prince killed himself nt Meyerling is heing pulled down. The orders of the Emperor are to makeovery effort to obliterate the scene of the midnight tragedy, and causo it to bo forgotten.

THE AMERICAN WOOL TRADE The American demand for wool in Boston market for the week ending June 27th continued very large, with prices firm and stronger. During the early part large sales were made at good prices, Tbe receipts of new wpols are growing larger, the greater proportion being Californian, Texas, and Territory. Some of the holders of tho Territory wools are asking such prices as to make them cost almost as much as Australian. ■ The foreign markets aro strong, Rnd tho wool situation at homo and abroad is still such as to denote a firm market for some time to come. John T. Waterhouse, an old resident of Ilawati, recently arrived at San Francisco in the interest of an enterprise tp connect the United States with the Sandwich Islands, and it is said that tho movement is backed by it large syndicate of American and British capital. It is also slated that a company, represented by Mr Waterhouse, propose to'act at, so that it may head off a similar enterprise contemplated by the Canadian Government. It is said that Mr Waterbouse's scheme will be aided to the extent of half a million of dollars, if the balance of one million, necessary to do tho work, can be raised by American capitalists, The- Oitv of Seattle, on Puget Sound, One of the most important towns in Washington Territory, and which gave promise of speedily distancing Portland, Orogon. and becoming the metropolis of tho Northwest, was almost totally destroyed by fire'on june'fjtli. T||e city was burned from the water's edge to the hillside, tbe arei\ ravaged 120 acres. It was started by a workman overturning a glqepot in a cabinetmaker's shop," Beforo the fire jjad been burning an hour the water »ave out,

and the people woro utterly, helpless to control or stay the flames. They stood idly l>y imd saw their city burn, There who firo department to speak of. The total loss is between 10,000,000 dollars and 12,000,000

dollars, but rebuilding recommenced almost before tho ruins had ceased to smoke, Four lives were lost, one of these being a thief, who was shut by a policeman while in the act of looting. • Seattle was the country seat of King's County, Washington Territory, and located on a spacious and placid harbour in the Middle Sonud, a short distance south of Taiorna. Its population had increased from 6000 in 1883 to 30,000 in 1887. Five railroads" centered in it. The city «wns the head quarters of the Puget Sound business, all of the steamsboat lines, with two exceptions, making it thoir head-quarters,